St John’s is very grateful to have received £1000 funding from the Lancaster Community Fund (Lancaster City Council and LDCVS) to purchase two new virtual reality headsets. These fantastic devices are now being used on our inpatient ward, with our community team and with our day therapies team with patients and families.
The VR headsets are great for enhancing the emotional and psychological wellbeing of those in our care, providing new and exciting experiences as well providing access to experiences that they might not be able to have due to limited mobility or illness.
These additional headsets will allow more of our patients and families to have and share these new experiences.
In our Friday Drop-In with the Day Therapies team one patient in particular had always wanted to visit Bora Bora. Now that this can no longer happen as they are too unwell, the VR Headset gave them an experience they though they would never get.
One of our Clinal Nurse Specialists who has used our VR with patients says she has seen it to “improve pain management, allow for moments of thrills and achieve ‘bucket list’ opportunities”.
