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Emma is Katharine House’s new CEO
15/05/2023
“I am passionate about the life that hospices can bring to patients and families facing the hardest of times”
Katharine House has a new CEO. Emma Radley started work at the Adderbury based hospice last week.
She previously worked at Winston’s Wish – a national child bereavement charity.
During her career Emma has also worked for the Oxford University Hospitals Trust on a number of occasions. Most significantly she was part of the fundraising team when the children’s hospital was being built.
Emma said: “Having used both adult and children’s hospices for my family over the years, I am passionate about the life that hospices can bring to patients and families facing the hardest of times.
“I have seen with my own eyes that hospices are a place to live, not just a place to die, and the relief of arriving in one from a hospital setting is palpable. The care and love which can be afforded to patients’ families in a hospice setting is so incredibly important and just not possible in the acute setting.
“Whilst at Katharine House Hospice I hope to play my part in ensuring that the exceptional care and compassion that the hospice is known for continues, whilst working to enable more and more people to benefit from it when they need it most. Hospices rely so much on their community in order to survive, but they are also for their community. I hope to ensure that it is a synergistic relationship.”
The mum of two lives in Witney and says that spending time with her daughters, her husband and family dog is important to her: “We have learnt over the years that spending time together, making memories and taking lots of photos is the most important past time – although that doesn’t always go down well with teenagers!”
Published: by Banbury FM Newsteam