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Northern Ireland Hospice

Impact Report 2024/25

Northern Ireland Hospice provides specialist palliative care for adults and children across Northern Ireland, including Somerton House and Horizon House, Northern Ireland's only dedicated children's hospice. Its Impact Report 2024/25 shows Hospice at Home caring for 309 patients, up from 278 the year before.

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Northern Ireland Hospice cares for adults at Somerton House, its 18-bed inpatient unit in Belfast, and in the community through seven Specialist Community Nursing teams and Hospice at Home. For children, Horizon House offers dedicated hospice care, supported by the Palliative and Life-Limited Service (PALLS), a children's Hub and children's Hospice at Home. Families are supported throughout and afterwards, through bereavement care, a monthly Bereavement Café, the Horizon Bereavement Project and new breathwork cafés.

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Hospice at Home cared for 309 patients (up from 278 in 2023/24) over 6,228 care hours, and specialist community nurses made 13,443 visits.
Key Metric 2 The charity supported 333 children (up from 309) through Horizon House and children's services, and delivered 394 post-bereavement support sessions (up from 230, a 71% rise).
Key Metric 3 948 volunteers gave 137,620 hours (up 16% from 118,472), valued at £1.75m, and total income was £19.5m (2023/24: £19.1m).

Key Outcomes

  • Six beds were reinstated at Horizon House with three-year funding confirmed, and 10 children received end-of-life care there over 139 nights.
  • PALLS supported 91 children and families, including 52 newly referred families.
  • 15-month-old Lila, who lives with Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Deficiency, and her parents Hayley and Robert from Moneymore receive both inpatient and Hospice at Home care.

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