Clinical and care support

From support with clinical leadership to tools for measuring quality, we aim to offer resources that will help end of life care professionals and ensure the best possible care for patients and their families.

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Our programmes

Find out about the wide range of support and resources we offer the hospice workforce

Supporting the hospice workforce

Find out about the wide range of support and resources we offer the hospice workforce.
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Grants to help hospices support people with progressive neurological conditions

Improving care for people with progressive neurological conditions

This programme seeks to help hospices improve care for people with progressive neurological conditions and their families.
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Find out about our four-year programme to improve the support for young people who are transitioning from children's services into adult care.

Transition from children's to adult hospice care

Find out about our four-year programme to improve the support for young people who are transitioning from children's to adult hospice services.
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Quality Improvement

A key element of our work is supporting excellence in hospice care, ensuring hospices are fully equipped to provide quality care for patients and their families.

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Every year, we collate, analyse and share data about hospice services. This forms a key part of our work fighting for hospice care for all who need it, for now and forever.

Hospice data

Submit your data about hospice services by 30th June, to help us fight for hospice care for all who need it, for now and forever.

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Hospice, palliative and end of life care

Hospice UK has worked closely with member hospices and other organisations to improve palliative and end of life care in a wide range of areas.

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News

What Matters Most when you’re dying?

Hospice UK and Marie Curie have partnered with Same But Different to create an honest, raw, and inspiring account of what matters most to people at the end of life.
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Death and dying: what to expect

Death and dying: what to expect

Talking about dying isn't easy. Here you will find practical advice and resources for when a loved one is dying, or has died.
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Dementia Care at End of Life

Find dementia end of life care guidance for for palliative and end of life care providers, including hospices, and how to join our dementia community of practice.
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Find resources and research to support Hospices' work with frailty care as part of the Extending Frailty Care grants programme

Extending Frailty Care

What is frailty? How is frailty measured? Why is frailty care important? Learning and resources about how and why hospices can and should deliver frailty attuned models of care.
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A guide for those providing and commissioning services, to raise awareness of the need for a hospice-enabled approach to heart failure 

Heart failure and hospice care

A guide for those providing and commissioning services, to raise awareness of the need for a hospice-enabled approach to heart failure.
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Nutrition in palliative care

Learn how to address nutrition in a palliative care setting with these free resources.
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Rehabilitative palliative care

Find rationale and guidance on how to adopt a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to rehabilitative palliative care.
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Supporting family and carers

Find resources on supporting family carers who are caring for people living with a life-limiting or terminal condition.
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Care after death guidance

Care After Death guidance

Read the guidance on Care After Death and Registered Nurse Verification of Expected Adult Death.

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Clinical Leadership

Providing clinical leadership for hospices and their staff is a core part of the work we do as the national charity for hospice and end of life care.

Executive Clinical Leads in Hospice and Palliative Care (ECLiHP)

National Clinical Leaders Group

The National Clinical Leaders Group (National CLG) is a Hospice UK forum for executive clinical leaders in hospices.
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Emergency Care Improvement Programme

Emergency Care Improvement Programme

This End of Life Care project was delivered by Hospice UK’s Quality Improvement team, in partnership with NHS Improvement and four acute trusts across England.
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Care homes and hospices

Care homes have an important role in the delivery of palliative and end of life care. Explore resources to help hospices build relationships with care homes.
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Compassionate Employers is a workplace bereavement, carer and illness support programme to help support your employees experiencing grief, bereavement and caring responsibilities at work.

Strategic Leadership Programme

Hospice UK's Strategic Leadership Programme is a professional development course specially designed for hospice leaders and available exclusively to our members.
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Courses, conferences and learning events

We offer a range of topical and cost effective webinars, workshops and conferences for those working in or with hospices.
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Research in hospice care

Find out why it’s important for hospices to be involved in research and how you can get started. Get support for carrying out robust research projects, measuring outcomes, and sh...

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Join our networks

There are lots of ways you can be a part of our work, from our Hospice UK discussion groups and expert communities of practice, to the 'all teach, all learn' approach of Project ECHO.

Join the conversation and be a part of Hospice UK's work to build a vibrant community championing hospice, palliative and end of life care

Networks and Communities

Join the conversation and be a part of Hospice UK's work to build a vibrant community championing hospice, palliative and end of life care.
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Share knowledge and expertise with other professionals through networks and associations

Professional Networks and Associations

Hospice UK enjoys good working relationships with many professional associations, which are all managed as independent entities. Find out more about them here.
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The Hospice UK Corporate Directory features companies and organisations that advertise and promote services and products relevant to the hospice sector

Corporate Directory

The Hospice UK Corporate Directory features companies and organisations that advertise and promote services and products relevant to the hospice sector.

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Making a difference to hospice care

We treat the person, not the disease

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Read stories from the frontline of hospice care
Browse our directory of learning examples to find practical information, tips and advice for new ways of working

Examples of innovation

Browse our directory of learning examples to find practical information, tips and advice for new ways of working.

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