Bury Hospice board appoints new trustee Dr Kevin Jones

The funniest doctor in medicine, Dr Kevin Jones has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of Bury Hospice. Kevin grew up in Chester and qualified in medicine from Liverpool University in 1977. He worked on the heart-lung transplant team at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge as a registrar and was a senior registrar at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He became a consultant physician at Bury General in 1990 and then moved to the Royal Bolton Hospital in 1998. While at Bolton he was the lead for acute medicine until retiring in June of this year.

His wife Liz has also just retired from a GP practice in Bolton. They have two sons, Rob and Will. Will is a Health Improvement Practitioner and Rob a musician. Kevin loves sports, travel, comedy and music being a huge Bob Dylan fan.

Kevin said: “I am very proud to have become a trustee for Bury Hospice, which is such vital service in Bury and has affected the lives of so many people locally in the 31 years it has been operating.”

Bury Hospice’s Board is led by Chair of Trustees, Chris Claydon-Butler and is made up of a team of representatives from our community who are responsible for the governance of the Hospice. They all have their own personal reasons for supporting the Hospice and all share the same desire to support its sustainability and development.

Run by Chief Executive Helen Lockwood, Bury Hospice has a consultant-led team of doctors, nurses and other professional staff providing expert care and support for local people with terminal or life-limiting illnesses and their families, both in the Hospice and the community.

An independent charity, it is mainly funded by the people of Bury who help raise the £3.5 million a year needed to run the Hospice through donations, fundraising, retail, lottery and gifts in wills.

For more information about the Hospice or to support the organisation, visit https://www.buryhospice.org.uk/