a haven where you could go to digest bad news, to discuss your options, to see whoever you needed to see – a counsellor, a psychologist, an end-of-life specialist, a palliative-care nurse.
A place with no hard edges or fluorescent lights or plastic chairs or stark corridors or reception desks. A place where you needed no appointment.
A place filled with light and colour and surrounded by nature.For 18 months in between treatments, she worked on this idea, in collaboration with her chemotherapy nurse Laura Lee.
The architect Richard Murphy was appointed and when Jencks died, in July 1995, the plans for the first centre were on her bed.The following year, the first Maggie’s Centre opened in what used to be an old stable block in the grounds.
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