{"id":563219,"date":"2025-11-11T08:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563219\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:48:13","slug":"marie-curie-starts-companion-service-at-birminghams-qe-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563219\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Curie starts companion service at Birmingham&#8217;s QE Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Eccles, who supports people at Warwick Hospital and in their homes, added: &#8220;It is really humbling to meet people and their families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She begun volunteering with Marie Curie 15 months ago after working as a senior manager in the corporate sector. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Eccles, 59, said many worried about who would look after loved ones and pets after their death and the companion can be a &#8220;sounding board&#8221; as well as pointing them towards further support, such as Marie Curie&#8217;s helpline. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also can give respite to family members visiting in hospital and are company for people alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So many people at the end of life are without close family members,&#8221; Ms Eccles said, adding they could be alone because relatives were abroad or they were the last one left from a circle of friends. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a companion volunteer we aim to provide comfort to people, listening to their stories or simply sitting with them and letting them know that they are not alone,&#8221; said Ms Eccles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Eccles, who supports people at Warwick Hospital and in their homes, added: &#8220;It is really humbling to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-563219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}