Hospice gains a managing director

A managing director has been appointed to help develop the work and services at Beaumond House Community Hospice in Newark.

Mr Patrick Fisher (44) was educated at All Saints’ Roman Catholic School in Mansfield and then trained as a radiographer.

For the past 18 years he has worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a sales director, marketing manager and project manager.

He has been a director of Newark Emmaus Trust, which helps to provide accommodation and help for young homeless, for 12 years.

Mr Fisher will be working with the 44 staff and more than 130 volunteers who together help with the day-to-day running of the hospice.

He said he wanted to build on the excellent reputation developed by the hospice over 20 years.

It provides respite care, day care, care at home, help for carers and bereavement services.

Just under three-quarters of the people they help have cancer, while others have long-term conditions such as motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis.

He and his wife, Mrs Jo Fisher, a radiographer at Newark Hospital, spent the first two years of their married lives in Newark then moved to Scotland for four years.

They moved to Winthorpe about 20 years ago.

Mr Fisher is a member of Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, Newark, and is the vice-chairman of the governors at All Saints’ school. He plans to continue his work with the Emmaus Trust.

Two new directors have been appointed. They are Dr Julie Barker, a GP at the Barnbygate surgery who has a special interest in palliative care and pharmacist Mr John Reynolds, who has helped Beaumond House in a voluntary capacity for many years.