Pendle hospice submits plans for smoking room for patients

5:00pm Saturday 29th September 2012 in News

PENDLESIDE Hospice has submitted plans to build two extensions, including a smoking room for patients, as part of a bid to secure a slice of £60m government funding.

The hospice on Colne Road, Reedley, wants to add a two-storey extension to the east of the current building and a single-storey extension to the north.

The current building, which has ten bedrooms, provides care for in-patients and day therapy along with out patients and a base for health visitors.

A new two-storey area would provide a linen store and smoking room for patients at ground floor level and increase the visitor accommodation on the first floor.

The single-storey extension is intended to store wheelchairs which are loaned out to patients in the wider community.

The planned new areas amount to an increase of 66 square metres in internal floor space.

Chief executive of Pendleside Hospice, Brian Hardup, said that the extended facilities were needed but there was no guarantee that they would be built soon.

He said: “Hundreds of organisations such as Pendleside are putting bids together to claim some of a £60m central government grant that is being made available for capital projects.

“One of the requirements needed to even put forward an application for a grant is that planning permission is already in place, so that is why we are going through this process.

“If the permission is granted then we will know whether the extension can go ahead next March when it’s announced who has been successful with their bids.”

Mr Hardup added that a smoking room was included as hospices are exempt from the indoor smoking ban legislation and that they currently provide an indoor area for patients.

Comments (8)

5:12pm Sat 29 Sep 12

Norm de Plume says...

You would think people suffering from cancer would be discouraged from smoking, not encouraged to smoke!
You would think people suffering from cancer would be discouraged from smoking, not encouraged to smoke! Norm de Plume

5:37pm Sat 29 Sep 12

mavrick says...

Norm de Plume wrote:
You would think people suffering from cancer would be discouraged from smoking, not encouraged to smoke!
People in a hospice have nothing to lose.So having a smoke is neither here or there.
[quote][p][bold]Norm de Plume[/bold] wrote: You would think people suffering from cancer would be discouraged from smoking, not encouraged to smoke![/p][/quote]People in a hospice have nothing to lose.So having a smoke is neither here or there. mavrick

7:20pm Sat 29 Sep 12

Benjis mum says...

By illegally not allowing old people to smoke in care homes it shortened the life of one old chap I knew.

He was constantly in and out of hospitals as he couldnt look after himself properly at home. He had carers that he paid for but they are not much good as due to the privatisation of the care services the owners and shareholders of the companies that provide the carers make a lot of money while paying the carers the minimum wage and they restrict the time they can help.

He went into a care home where he made a remarkable recovery, in fact the staff admitted that they thought. he had gone there to die. Once he had improved a little I was allowed to take him outside in a wheelchair for a cigarette as they wrongly said that he wasnt allowed to smoke inside. This was over a very miserable wet and cold winter when he was 79 years old.
It turned out that they should have provided a room for residents to smoke in, as long as it had a self closing door and didnt open directly onto a non smoking area.
Once he was fit enough to leave, even though he could have stayed there for the rest of his life, he insisted on leaving as he wanted to be able to enjoy continuing to smoke in comfort, inside a room, not outside in the cold and the rain.
The doctors had told him that it didnt really matter if he had 4 or 5 cigarettes a day as hed already done the damage years earlier.

He carried on being in and out of hospital and anther stay in that same home over the next 2 years until he eventually died at home at 82 yearrs old.

If they had let him smoke a few ciggies a day either in his own room or in a designated smoking room, whichhe would have accepted, I have no doubt that he would have lived another 4 or 5 years at least.
He died of blood clot in his leg as te carers let him sit in the chair all day and didnt make him exercise or move around at all like they would have made him d in the care home.
In fact he would have insisted on moving himself to the smoking room for a ciggie a few times a day if hed stayed in that care home.

Why they should stop someone enjoying something that is legal to buy and use after they have used it for 70 years or more is beyond me. Afterall smoking will die die out eventually as the older people die anyway, so why make them suffer unnecessarily in their remaining years.

I am convinced that the anti smoking nazis shortened his life and maybe a lot of others too.
By illegally not allowing old people to smoke in care homes it shortened the life of one old chap I knew. He was constantly in and out of hospitals as he couldnt look after himself properly at home. He had carers that he paid for but they are not much good as due to the privatisation of the care services the owners and shareholders of the companies that provide the carers make a lot of money while paying the carers the minimum wage and they restrict the time they can help. He went into a care home where he made a remarkable recovery, in fact the staff admitted that they thought. he had gone there to die. Once he had improved a little I was allowed to take him outside in a wheelchair for a cigarette as they wrongly said that he wasnt allowed to smoke inside. This was over a very miserable wet and cold winter when he was 79 years old. It turned out that they should have provided a room for residents to smoke in, as long as it had a self closing door and didnt open directly onto a non smoking area. Once he was fit enough to leave, even though he could have stayed there for the rest of his life, he insisted on leaving as he wanted to be able to enjoy continuing to smoke in comfort, inside a room, not outside in the cold and the rain. The doctors had told him that it didnt really matter if he had 4 or 5 cigarettes a day as hed already done the damage years earlier. He carried on being in and out of hospital and anther stay in that same home over the next 2 years until he eventually died at home at 82 yearrs old. If they had let him smoke a few ciggies a day either in his own room or in a designated smoking room, whichhe would have accepted, I have no doubt that he would have lived another 4 or 5 years at least. He died of blood clot in his leg as te carers let him sit in the chair all day and didnt make him exercise or move around at all like they would have made him d in the care home. In fact he would have insisted on moving himself to the smoking room for a ciggie a few times a day if hed stayed in that care home. Why they should stop someone enjoying something that is legal to buy and use after they have used it for 70 years or more is beyond me. Afterall smoking will die die out eventually as the older people die anyway, so why make them suffer unnecessarily in their remaining years. I am convinced that the anti smoking nazis shortened his life and maybe a lot of others too. Benjis mum

9:08pm Sat 29 Sep 12

ROBERTSLUMDWELLER123 says...

mavrick wrote:
Norm de Plume wrote:
You would think people suffering from cancer would be discouraged from smoking, not encouraged to smoke!
People in a hospice have nothing to lose.So having a smoke is neither here or there.
i think your wasting your time explaining anything to Nob De Plume!!!
[quote][p][bold]mavrick[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]Norm de Plume[/bold] wrote: You would think people suffering from cancer would be discouraged from smoking, not encouraged to smoke![/p][/quote]People in a hospice have nothing to lose.So having a smoke is neither here or there.[/p][/quote]i think your wasting your time explaining anything to Nob De Plume!!! ROBERTSLUMDWELLER123

2:41am Sun 30 Sep 12

Benjis mum says...

I get that feeling about a lot of the people on here.

You cant educate pork as they say, even though pigs are very intelligent. At least they are intelligent enough to have learnt how to make themselves unacceptable to be eaten by jews and muslims :)
I get that feeling about a lot of the people on here. You cant educate pork as they say, even though pigs are very intelligent. At least they are intelligent enough to have learnt how to make themselves unacceptable to be eaten by jews and muslims :) Benjis mum

7:27am Sun 30 Sep 12

2 for 5p says...

That is crazy, its probobly tags that has put them inn there in the first place.
That is crazy, its probobly tags that has put them inn there in the first place. 2 for 5p

1:51pm Sun 30 Sep 12

Norm de Plume says...

ROBERTSLUMDWELLER123 wrote:
mavrick wrote:
Norm de Plume wrote:
You would think people suffering from cancer would be discouraged from smoking, not encouraged to smoke!
People in a hospice have nothing to lose.So having a smoke is neither here or there.
i think your wasting your time explaining anything to Nob De Plume!!!
They've obviously wasted their time teaching you to spell!
[quote][p][bold]ROBERTSLUMDWELLER123[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]mavrick[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]Norm de Plume[/bold] wrote: You would think people suffering from cancer would be discouraged from smoking, not encouraged to smoke![/p][/quote]People in a hospice have nothing to lose.So having a smoke is neither here or there.[/p][/quote]i think your wasting your time explaining anything to Nob De Plume!!![/p][/quote]They've obviously wasted their time teaching you to spell! Norm de Plume

7:33pm Sun 30 Sep 12

slimitus says...

Now all they need to do is break the no smoking law for pubs and clubs, and business will be booming again.
Now all they need to do is break the no smoking law for pubs and clubs, and business will be booming again. slimitus

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