2026 Free

Annual Impact Report 2025-26

Birmingham Hospice provides specialist palliative and end-of-life care for patients and families across Birmingham and Solihull. Its 2025/26 report covers inpatient care, community nursing, Living Well Centres and bereavement support. The new 24/7 SPUR service launched in January 2026, with first-quarter results showing 95.9% of its patients achieved their preferred place of death.

Report snapshot
24 Views

About

Birmingham Hospice provides specialist care for people with life-limiting illness and supports the families and carers around them. Patients can receive inpatient care, Hospice at Home support, community nursing and Living Well Centre activities, alongside wellbeing, social and bereavement services. Its 24/7 Specialist Palliative Urgent Response service offers advice and urgent care at home across Birmingham and Solihull. Education and research help strengthen palliative-care practice. Custom geography from upload: Birmingham & Solihull

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 385 patients cared for in inpatient units during 2025/26
Key Metric 2 2,154 attendances at Living Well Centres
Key Metric 3 273 SPUR referrals and 526 calls during January-March 2026

Key Outcomes

  • 99% of patient-feedback survey respondents would recommend hospice services.
  • 95.9% of SPUR patients achieved their preferred place of death in January-March 2026.
  • 77% of SPUR patients managed directly by the SPUR team in its first quarter.

Geography

Other

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on...
Key Metric 2
700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling...
Key Metric 3
Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation...
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 2
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 3
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to...
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
Key Metric 2
£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
Key Metric 3
32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission
Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge invested over £23 million in 19 projects across 161 experts from 47 institutions in 8 countries since 2022