{"id":27880,"date":"2022-09-06T10:26:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T10:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cudeca.org\/?p=27880"},"modified":"2022-09-07T13:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T13:39:28","slug":"visita-del-embajador-del-reuno-unido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cudeca.org\/en\/actualidad\/uk-ambassador-to-spain-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Ambassador to Spain Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The British Ambassador to Spain, Hugh Elliott<\/strong>, visited the Cudeca Hospice in Benalm\u00e1dena on September 5th. He and his wife Mar\u00eda Antonia Mart\u00edn were given a guided tour of the building and met staff who recounted the history of the palliative care centre founded by British subject Joan Hunt,\u00a0 the only one of its kind in Spain, and explained the various care programmes. Cudeca, which cares for more than 1,700 people of many different nationalities every year, has home care teams, day care facilities, rehabilitation and physiotherapy services as well as psychological and social care professionals and an In-Patient Unit.<\/p>\n

The tour of the installations then moved to the adjoining building, the recently inaugurated Yusuf Hamied Training and Research Centre, where Cudeca will train future palliative care specialists.<\/p>\n

Joan Hunt<\/strong>, who died in June 2021, was awarded an OBE in 2002 for her work establishing a centre to care for people with incurable and terminal illnesses, and the Ambassador, who later was due to present the same honour to the Mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, commented that he was very sorry not to have met such a remarkable pioneer. He congratulated all the staff and volunteers for their work to maintain her legacy, and had high praise for the hospice itself and its beautiful surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\t\t