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Speak up for hospices - write to your MP

12 September 2025

2 in 5 hospices planning to make cuts this year

Data from Hospice UK reveals the stark impact insufficient funding has on hospices.

Helen Teed, Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist at Strathcarron Hospice, explains how Wolfson Professional Development Grant funding had a profound impact on her hospice career

11 September 2025

‘It was a game-changer’: how Wolfson funding propelled Helen’s hospice career

Helen Teed, an Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist at Strathcarron Hospice explains how a Wolfson Foundation Professional Development Grant had a profound impact.

Scottish parliament

10 September 2025

Response to the launch of the Scottish Government’s new palliative care strategy

Hospice UK response to the launch of the Scottish Government’s new palliative care strategy

28 July 2025

Hospice UK featured in BBC Radio 4 Appeal

Jo Brand tells the story of Sam and Rob for the BBC Radio 4 Appeal.

Scottish parliament

25 July 2025

Hospice UK responds to £5m Scottish hospice funding announcement

Hospice UK responds to news that hospice staff in Scotland are to receive pay equal to their NHS counterparts, following a £5 million funding commitment from the Scottish Governme...

Press release

20 July 2025

£75m of additional funding allocated to hospices

£75m of additional funding allocated to hospices

Husband Andy and wife Gill together at Ellenor

Hospice care stories

10 July 2025

How hospice care helped one man care for the wife Alzheimer's was taking away

Gill has Stage 6 Alzheimer’s; for Andy, it meant the loss of their old life together.