Latest news from Hospice UK

Read all our latest news, and stories showcasing the best of hospice and end of life care.

Four people holding up speech bubbles
Filter results...
For Hospice Care Week 2025, we explore a heartwarming story of hospice care in the community – and why hospice care is more than you think
Hospice care stories

Why hospice care is more than you think

For Hospice Care Week 2025, we explore a heartwarming story of hospice care in the community – and why hospice care is more than you think.
Find out more
Hospice care in the community
Hospice care stories

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...
Find out more
Hospice Care at home
Hospice care stories

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...
Find out more
Images to encourage conversations around dying
Hospice care stories

“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...
Find out more
Speak up for hospices - write to your MP
Press Release

2 in 5 hospices planning to make cuts this year

Data from Hospice UK reveals the stark impact insufficient funding has on hospices.
Find out more
Helen Teed, Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist at Strathcarron Hospice, explains how Wolfson Professional Development Grant funding had a profound impact on her hospice career
Grants

‘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.
Find out more
Scottish parliament
News

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
Find out more