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09 October 2025

Hospice UK unveils plan for hospice funding in England

Hospice UK is launching a new four point plan for fair funding for hospices, as it releases data revealing that 57% of hospices ended the last financial year in deficit, with 20% r...

Jeanette Hogg is the Lead Admiral Nurse at Hospice Isle of Man - she received funding from a Wolfson Foundation Professional Development grant via Hospice UK to undertake vital training in Dementia Studies

08 October 2025

Challenge, improve and change: Jeanette’s Wolfson Funding

Jeanette Hogg, Lead Admiral Nurse at Hospice Isle of Man, shares how her professional development grant from the Wolfson Foundation made a difference to her dementia practice.

Myths about hospice care

Hospice care stories

03 October 2025

Seven things you didn’t know about hospice care: Nurses bust myths this Hospice Care Week

This Hospice Care Week (6-12 October), hospice nurses across the UK are lifting the lid on what hospice care is really like, and sharing the moments that make their work so powerfu...

Hospice Care at home

Hospice care stories

03 October 2025

How hospice care helps Barbara live life her way

Barbara is 81 and lives on her narrowboat in Milton Keynes. She’s being supported by our Willen at Home nurses to stay on her boat, as she wishes, and live as well as possible wi...

Balfour Mount

02 October 2025

Tribute to Dr Balfour Mount, pioneer of palliative care (1939 - 2025)

Tribute to Dr Balfour Mount, pioneer of palliative care (1939 - 2025)

Images to encourage conversations around dying

Hospice care stories

26 September 2025

“Dying To Be Heard”: 7 Images Created To Encourage Conversation

Terminally ill patient Megan McClay and her husband, Dimitar Kashchiev, took part in a photographic project that was created by me and the team at Same but Different to highlight e...