Duncan Stewart
Trustee
Duncan Stewart has been a trustee since 2016 and currently chairs the Clinical Governance Committee meetings. Before this he was a director of Martlets Care and then a member of the Income Generation Committee when the two merged.
For the last 4 years he has worked with Nicholas Roddis, the hospices’ chaplain until very recently, as a Non Religious Pastoral care volunteer talking and listening to patients in the IPU, in their homes and, during the pandemic, keeping in touch by phone. He is also one of the group of Martlets volunteers who keep in touch with our patients in the Compassionate Neighbour scheme.
He did his medical training ay Guy’s Hospital and moved to Brighton in 1967 to complete his pre-registration hospital training before going into General Practice in the city, work he enjoyed enormously for nearly 45 years.
Duncan has 2 daughters; one is a lawyer specialising in data protection and the other works in marketing in London. His younger grandson has just left school and intends, like his brother, to do a degree in business studies.
Never a gifted sportsman, he continues to play tennis, doubles only, and is a keen walker. He was the first person to complete the Friends of Sussex Hospices Trail – a 210-mile trek round the perimeter of Sussex and raised over £4K. One useful outcome of the lockdown has been his rather more adventurous choice of recipes and a garden that has never before looked so colourful and tidy.
Involvement with Martlets is an important part of his life because he feels that access to the wonderful multi-faceted care the hospice provides for the people of Brighton significantly reduces the fear we all have of a possibly fraught and painful end to our lives.
