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St Columba's Hospice Care

Inside Out: Impact Report 2024/25

St Columba's Hospice Care provides specialist palliative and end-of-life care, bereavement support and compassionate community programmes across Edinburgh and the Lothians. Its Inside Out Impact Report 2024/25 shows more than 1,560 people supported through its clinical and wellbeing services.

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St Columba's cares for people on Cedar Ward, its inpatient unit, at home through Hospice at Home, and through a Virtual Ward. Its Compassionate Communities volunteers offer one-to-one support, while complementary therapies, counselling and bereavement support help patients and families. The hospice works with Queen Margaret University, the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University on education and research, and its STUDIO15 salon, Manor House Therapies social enterprise and charity shops help fund its care.

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 More than 1,560 people were supported through core clinical and wellbeing services, 1,217 of them through core clinical services.
Key Metric 2 The 15-bed Cedar Ward inpatient unit had 294 admissions at 74% average occupancy, and the Virtual Ward supported 156 people.
Key Metric 3 Compassionate Communities delivered 3,309 one-to-one interactions (up 29% on the previous year), and adult counselling and bereavement engagements rose 25% to 1,808.

Key Outcomes

  • 373 people were supported to die at home and a further 235 were supported in hospitals or care settings.
  • The community team reached 1,135 individuals (up 25%) and 339 people accessed complementary therapies (up 15.7%).
  • Fundraising income rose 21% and more than 640 volunteers supported the hospice's work across Edinburgh and the Lothians.

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Scotland

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