Our Services

Blythe House adds quality to life by providing the highest levels of care for people in the High Peak who are affected by cancer and certain other life-limiting illnesses, and supporting those who are bereaved.

For patient referrals to any of our services, please email our secure NHS address: blythehouse@nhs.net

Hospice at Home

Since 2016 we have been providing care for patients with life-limiting illnesses, who wish to be supported in the comfort of their own home.

Living Well Service

Our Living Well Service supports adults with cancer or certain other life-limiting illnesses. We help, inspire and guide our patients to live as well as they can. Some hospices are concerned mainly with those who are at the end stages of their lives. Unlike them, we support people at every stage of illness from diagnosis onwards. The services we provide also extend to carers and other family members.

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Counselling and bereavement service

We offer a counselling/psychotherapy service for adults who are experiencing emotional distress as a result of their own life-limiting illness or the illness of someone significant to them.

Our bereavement service is here for anyone who is finding it difficult to cope after a loved one has died. Support is available for children and young people as well as adults.

Out-patient Clinics

We provide a base for weekly Out-Patient Clinics making it easier for local people to get the specialist treatment and advice they need for lymphoedema, heart failure and palliative medicine.

Information & Support Service

The Information and Support Centre at Blythe House provides a confidential drop-in service for anyone affected by cancer or other life limiting illness. This includes people who; require information for themselves about illness or related issue, are a carer, relative or friend of someone with cancer or other life-limiting illness, are a health or social care professional.

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Community Volunteer programme

Our dedicated volunteers head out in the local community to offer support and friendship to patients in the comfort of their own homes.

Support groups

We run a number of support groups and events at Blythe House which are open to anyone. These include:

Carers evening support group
Breast Friends breast cancer support group
Prostate cancer support group
Bereavement support group
Mindful meditation group

Why support Blythe House?

Some of our patients, their families, friends and carers have kindly agreed to share their experiences with you.

We also use this section of our website to showcase some of our staff roles here at Blythe House…

Janet's story

Our stories, Volunteering

‘I really value the support from the community volunteer programme; Blythe House is a lifeline for me and my family.’ Chapel-en-le-Frith resident Janet Brindley was referred to Blythe House by her support worker in October 2018, after…

Jim's story

Our stories

Engineer, Jim Martin started to attend Blythe House in 2018 after cancer in his prostate spread to his bones. The 68-year-old proud grandfather says the hospice is ‘certainly not a “last chance saloon”’ and that he would ‘recommend…

Rachel’s story

Staff stories

Rachel Jennings is Blythe House’s Hospicecare’s lead counsellor, working with adults who are experiencing emotional distress because of their own life-limiting illness, or the illness of someone significant to them, and offering a bereavement…

Philippa’s story

Staff stories

Philippa Heath, from Chapel-en-le-Frith, became a Hospice at Home healthcare assistant in March 2017 after deciding to apply because of her passion for ‘people to have the choice and the option to die at home.’ Here, she explains more… ‘My…

Sheila’s story

Staff stories

Sheila Darcy qualified as a nurse specialising in mental health in 1976, beginning her career at Cheadle Royal Hospital. The self-confessed night owl undertook different roles covering mental health, accident and emergency, Alzheimer’s and…

Huggy’s story

Our stories

Kevin Hawley, affectionately known as Huggy, started to attend Blythe House in 2018 after being diagnosed with carcinoid syndrome. Huggy’s loveable nickname came about in 1976, when he was a firefighter in Derby; with colleagues taking inspiration…

Our Services

For patient referrals to any of our services, please email our secure NHS address: blythehouse@nhs.net

Hospice at Home

Living Well Service

Counselling and bereavement service

Out-patient Clinics

Information & Support Service

Community Volunteer programme

Support groups

Why support Blythe House?

Janet's story

Jim's story

Rachel’s story

Philippa’s story

Sheila’s story

Huggy’s story

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