18 October 2011
On Friday, Oliver Heald, MP for North East Hertfordshire, visited Keech Hospice.
Keech Hospice Care is the children’s hospice for Hertfordshire and looks after young people with life limiting conditions from across Mr Heald’s constituency, which covers Letchworth Garden City, Baldock, Royston and Buntingford. The Constituency also includes large villages, such as Watton-at-Stone, Standon, Puckeridge, Bayford, Little Berkamsted, Walkern, Ashwell, Weston and Sandon, and other many smaller villages.
Mr Heald was shown around the hospice by Mike Keel, chief executive of the hospice which celebrates its 21st birthday in 2012. He was welcomed to the children’s unit by Jeanette Farrow, children’s services manager, who showed him the sensory room and children’s bedrooms, as well as the music and art therapy spaces where he met parents and children.
It was Mr Heald’s first visit to the hospice. He said: “I was very impressed by my visit to Keech Hospice in Luton. Their children’s service covers Hertfordshire and has recently admitted patients from my Constituency.
“It was also good to meet Children’s Service Manager, Jeanette Farrow. I first met Jeanette when she was manager of the children’s home in Baldock and it was excellent to be shown around Keech Hospice’s children’s unit by her.
I know that the hospice is always keen to raise money for its important services and I am happy to be a supporter of this service which covers my Constituency of North East Hertfordshire.”
