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Hospice UK and Corndel launch the Hospice Data Academy for hospice professionals across England

Stuart Mitchell

A recent report by the NHS Health and Social Care Committee has highlighted the considerable digital skills gap in the UK’s health and social care workforce. In hospice care, a better understanding of patient and care data can help streamline and improve service provision, as well as be utilised to improve equality and inclusion in hospice care. To increase data literacy in the sector, Corndel, the UK strategic skills training provider, has partnered with Hospice UK, the national charity for hospice and end of life care, to launch the Hospice…

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Hospice Health Report 2023: Helping hospices work towards success and sustainability

Stuart Mitchell

The newly-published Hospice Health Report sets out how hospice fundraising teams have weathered the storm of the pandemic, but face significant challenges in the coming years. About the report Aimed at helping support strategic planning in hospices, the report is a comprehensive study of the sector’s fundraising since 2017, and intends to guide the sector toward success and sustainability. Its findings focus on the change in behaviour of both existing and new donors in the context of the current cost-of-living crisis. It suggests ways that hospices can address these by…

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Deutsche Bank raises £722,000 for Hospice UK through One Day fundraising campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Deutsche Bank employees have raised £722,000 for charity Hospice UK to help people up-and-down the country access vital hospice and end of life care and support. The bank dedicated its 14th annual One Day fundraising campaign to Hospice UK, its UK Charity of the Year for 2020 and 2021. This year’s event moved online to adhere to COVID restrictions, with employees pledging to donate a day’s salary to the cause. Deutsche Bank employees joined ITV Political Editor and Vice President of Hospice UK, Robert Peston and the charity’s CEO, Tracey…

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New Clydesdale Bank notes auctioned to raise funds for hospice care

Stuart Mitchell

New £10 polymer bank notes from Clydesdale Bank will go under the virtual hammer to raise funds for hospice care this week. A limited number of the new £10 notes with collectible low serial numbers will be sold through auction site eBay from 9pm on Sunday 24th September, closing at 9pm on Sunday 1st October All proceeds from the auction will go to Hospice UK.  The first phase of the auction will feature 5 pristine notes numbered: 55, 66, 77, 88, and 99.   These highly collectible, low numbered notes,…

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