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22nd December 2020

Harry made a boat

Covid-19 Patient story
A wish came true for one of our patients; Harry had built a fantastic model boat and he really wanted to test it out on the water, so his Hospice in the Home nurse and our specialist therapies assistant picked him up and it was off to the boating lake!

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