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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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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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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Death and dying: what to expect

Talking about dying isn't easy. Here you will find practical advice and resources on how to tell somebody that 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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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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Find definitions of transition from children's services into adulthood and how Hospice UK is responding to young people's needs with research, guidance and project funds

Transition from children's services into adulthood

Find out what support young people need when they are transitioning from children's services into adulthood and how Hospice UK can help you provide the appropriate care.
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Care After Death guidance

Read 'Care After Death: Registered Nurse Verification of Expected Adult Death guidance (5th edition)', and 'Care After Death (4th edition)'.

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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.

Quality Assurance: we help ensure hospices are fully equipped to provide quality care for patients and their families

Quality assurance

We help ensure hospices are fully equipped to provide quality care for patients and their families.
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Executive Clinical Leads in Hospice and Palliative Care (ECLiHP)

Executive Clinical Leads in Hospice and Palliative Care

Find out about the Executive Clinical Leads in Hospice and Palliative Care (ECLiHP) forum, for clinical leaders engaged in the strategic planning and operational delivery of hospic...
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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

We aim to enable Hospice UK members to share ideas on support for care homes and network with UK-wide colleagues.
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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

Booking is now open for the ninth cohort of the Strategic Leadership Online Programme, taking place between March and July 2023.
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Sign up to our range of topical and cost effective courses, conferences and other learning events for those working in or with hospices

Courses, conferences and learning events

Sign up to our range of topical and cost effective courses, conferences and other learning events for those working in or with hospices.
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Quality Assurance: we help ensure hospices are fully equipped to provide quality care for patients and their families

Quality assurance

We help ensure hospices are fully equipped to provide quality care for patients and their families.

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Join our networks

There are lots of ways you can be a part of our work, from our Hospice iQ forums, to the 'all teach, all learn' approach of Project ECHO.

Project ECHO at Hospice UK is improving hospice and end of life care for healthcare professionals in the UK

Project ECHO

Find out what Project ECHO is, how it is improving end of life and hospice care in the UK, and how you can become an ECHO hub or join a network.
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Join our clinical Communities of Practice to exchange ideas, information and guidance

Communities of Practice

Join our clinical and non-clinical support networks and communities of practice to exchange ideas, information and guidance with your colleagues across the end of life care sector....
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Our new Discord groups will enable discussions to continue from a network meeting or conference session

Hospice UK online discussion groups

Our new Discord groups will enable discussions to continue from a network meeting or conference session, ask other professionals for advice and find solutions to sector-wide challe...
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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