Projects
Patient Care
St John Home,Cramond
This home, which in co-operation with Lothian Hospitals NHS Trust, used to accommodate people from south-west Scotland who needed treatment at the Oncology Unit in the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. Unfortunately, this service ceased at the end of 2007. St John Scotland is now looking at other suitable charitable uses for the property and suggestions should be made to Priory Secretary, Richard Waller at the head office in Edinburgh.
St John Patient Transport
Dumfries and Galloway members operate two schemes to help transport people living in their area to and from medical treatment.
A people carrier is used to transport patients with serious illnesses in comfort from the west of the region for hospital treatment in Dumfries or out of the region. The vehicle is owned by the Priory and driven by volunteers.
The second scheme, which has been running for nearly seven years, is operated by drivers using their own cars. Patients from the Stranraer and Newton Stewart areas are taken on Mondays to Dumfries to link up with special transport to Edinburgh where they receive chemo- or radio-therapy during the week. On Friday afternoons they are collected from Dumfries and taken back to their homes for the weekend.
St John Palliative Care Project, Stranraer.
The two-bedded St John palliative care unit at Dalrymple Hospital, Stranraer has recently been upgraded as the hospital was rebuilt. In addition, there is a well-established 'Hospice at Home' project which provides increased nursing support for seriously ill patients in their own homes. Joint-funded by the local NHS Primary Care Trust, it operates throughout Wigtownshire.