“Because I’m a keen gardener, I love spending time in the nature and outdoors. I was very, very quickly attracted to the beautiful Cyrenians garden.”

“When I want to relax or when I am stressed and I want to take steam out, I am opening my surgery here and I am trying to figure it out.”

“Even when it’s cold in the winter, I make sure I’m wrapped up in my coat and got my gloves on.”

“The place I escape to, I call it my howf. Get in here, close the door, and I can do my wee projects at lunchtime and it’s just nice and relaxing.”

“And it’s mine, it’s nobody else’s. It belongs to the hospital but it’s my space.”

“It can get testing at times and you do need a place to hide. At the same time, where do you hide?You can’t go for a two-hour chat with your friends…so you just walk to the other end of the hospital and back.”

We are delighted to have supported the teams at the Edinburgh Cancer Centre with their ongoing programme of works and their holistic approach to patient care.

We have continued our programme of art and therapeutic design to improve patient experience at East Lothian Community Hospital. The latest project has created bright, stimulating Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) rooms to support children on their communication journey.

Thanks to the generous support of The Blythe Family Trust, we are delighted to be funding several key projects designed to significantly enhance the experience of patients and their families, with a particular focus on those in our inpatient wards who require more specialist and long-term care.