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Hospice UK

Impact Report April 2023 – December 2024: For All, For Now, Forever

Hospice UK is the national charity for hospice and palliative care, representing 212 member hospices across the UK. Their impact report for April 2023 to December 2024 covers a landmark funding campaign that secured £126 million from governments across England, Scotland and Wales, member hospices supporting 310,000 patients and making 1.5 million home visits in 2023/24, Dying Matters Awareness Week reaching record audiences, and new equity programmes targeting financial hardship, dementia, trans communities and rural access.

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📋About

Member network support (212 hospices); Dying Matters campaign (Awareness Week viewed 57,000+ times — 400% increase on 2023); Compassionate Employers Programme (165,000+ employees reached, 98% better equipped to support bereaved colleagues); PopNAT data tool for hospices; grants programme (hospice projects in prisons, transitional care, palliative home care, community grants); workforce wellbeing programme; Dying Matters Community Grants; Volunteer to Career pilot; 'Death, dying and financial hardship' policy report; trans and gender diverse toolkit; dementia and end of life community of practice (with Dementia UK) Custom geography from upload: UK

📊Key Metrics

212 member hospices across all four nations; 310,000 patients supported with palliative and end of life care in 2023/24 Key Metric 1
1.5 million home visits made; 630,000 days and nights of inpatient care; 440,000 appointments to families, carers and friends including bereavement support Key Metric 2
£126 million in emergency government funding secured for hospice sector across England, Scotland and Wales following sustained Hospice UK campaign Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • £100 million capital + £26 million children's hospice revenue funding secured from English government; £4–7 million secured in Wales; £5 million in Scotland — all following Hospice UK-led campaign across all four nations
  • 20,000+ people mobilised to write to their MP or MSP during and after the General Election; hundreds of new MPs briefed within months of taking office on hospice funding crisis
  • Dying Matters Awareness Week animation viewed 57,000+ times in 2024 — a 400% increase on 2023 — driving national conversations about death, dying and end of life language

📍Geography

UK-Wide

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