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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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

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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Find resources and research to support Hospices' work with frailty care as part of the Extending Frailty Care grants programme

Extending Frailty Care Programme

Find resources and information to support hospices to 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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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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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

Read 'Care After Death: Registered Nurse Verification of Expected Adult Death guidance (6th edition)', and 'Care After Death (5th 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

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

The Strategic Leadership Online Programme takes place annually.
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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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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