Marie Curie’s origins start with the Marie Curie Hospital, which is at 2 Fitzjohn’s Avenue, Hampstead. The hospital was opened in 1930 by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who specialized in radiological treatments for women who suffered from cancer or other allied diseases. The staff consisted of women, and they cared for 700 patients a year with 39 beds.
In the 1980-2000’s Marie Curie Homes (later changed to Marie Curie Hospices) decided to focus less on providing long term nursing care to cancer patients and focused more on hospice care. This meant that they could care for more patients that were seriously ill for shorter periods of time.
Hospice care is there to improve the quality of life and help the wellbeing of children, young people or adults that have terminal illnesses.
“Our nine hospices offer inpatient and outpatient care and a broad range of day therapies to meet the needs of individual patients with a range of terminal conditions.”
Since we’re creating artwork with our client in mind, this means that we have a specific target audience in mind. So, since the people who will be seeing the artwork are patients, as well as people who are visiting their dying families, we shouldn’t create work that contains anything graphic or inappropriate since it wouldn’t fit the target audience.
