Health & Wellbeing Community & Social Justice 2026
Rowans Hospice

Annual Report and Financial Statements 2024/25

Rowans Hospice provides specialist palliative and end of life care across Portsmouth and South East Hampshire. Their 2024/25 annual report covers one of the most challenging years in the hospice's history — including bed reductions, staff redundancies and a shared CEO arrangement with St Michael's Hospice — alongside outstanding outcomes including a CQC Outstanding rating, a landmark three-year ICB funding contract at 22% of costs, and 380 inpatient admissions maintained despite reduced bed capacity.

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📋About

Inpatient Unit (16 beds, Waterlooville); Hospice at Home (306 patients, 24/7, average 2.6-hour urgent response); Living Well Service (Gosport, Hayling Island and Central Portsmouth satellite clinics; complementary therapy, yoga, art therapy, chair exercise, future planning, carers education, bereavement); Veterans service (weekly face-to-face groups, expanding to Gosport); Psychology and bereavement support; Palliative Care Hub; specialist education and training; shared CEO model with St Michael's Hospice (Basingstoke) Custom geography from upload: Portsmouth & South East Hampshire

📊Key Metrics

380 inpatient admissions in 2024/25; 71% of discharged patients returned to their own home; average length of stay 13.3 days Key Metric 1
306 people supported by Hospice at Home (up from 292); 2.6 hours average urgent referral response time; 7,909 Living Well Centre visits by patients, carers and bereaved Key Metric 2
CQC Outstanding rating received April 2025; three-year ICB contract secured covering 22% of running costs — significant uplift from previous funding level Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • CQC Outstanding rating confirmed April 2025 — covering all five regulatory domains following unannounced inspection in February 2025; rightly reflects excellence of care teams through a year of significant financial challenge and restructure
  • Three-year ICB contract secured at 22% of running costs — a landmark NHS funding uplift for Rowans following months of negotiation, redressing long-standing funding inequity across Hampshire
  • Inpatient bed capacity reduced from 19 to 16 in August 2024 due to funding constraints — but new ways of working maintained admission numbers at the same level; shared CEO model with St Michael's Hospice creating sector-leading efficiency and resilience model

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