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Highland Hospice is one of over 200 hospices or ‘Specialist Palliative Care Units’ in the UK that have developed since 1967.
Hospices have been places of refuge and for care for the sick since the Middle Ages but the modern hospice movement owes its development to the work of the late Dame Cicley Saunders and the opening of St Christopher’s Hospice in London in 1967. Dame Cicely was keen to acknowledge this lineage when describing St. Christopher’s:
The name hospice ‘a resting place for travellers or pilgrims’, was chosen because this will be something between a hospital and a home, with the skills of one and the hospitality, warmth, and the time of the other.
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