Sheetal Mahurkar

I am proud to be the Team Lead for Hospice at Home, North Team.

We deliver holistic care to patients within their home as per their needs. I enjoy working with the Hospice at Home team as I feel we make a difference by being with them when they approach end of life, ensuring they have a pain-free death.

I always reassure them and say that we are with them until the end. We guide them step by step from the initial assessment until the journey of ‘last breath’. We provide emotional and psychological support to the patient and their family.

One time I remember a man’s wife had died aged 100 and he said he didn’t know anyone who would come to the funeral. I said I would go and I attended it on my day off representing Hospice at Home.

When we arrived, the man was in tears. He said: ‘I didn’t expect you to come’ and I replied: ‘Well, I did tell you that I’d come.’

I am in the team that covers North Cambridgeshire – Fenland, Huntingdon, St Ives, St Neots, Wisbech, Murrow, March, etc. When we hear feedback from patients and their families, we know people in this area need us. They don’t want to die in hospital, they don’t want to die in a care home, they don’t want to die in a hospice, they want to be at home surrounded by their family in their own environment.

The peace that they should have when they take their last breath is very important to us.