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Yahoo
5 days ago
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Hospice budgeting for £537,000 deficit
A hospice which offers end-of-life care is budgeting for a deficit in the current financial year of over half a million pounds on its running costs of more than £14m, a report has said. St Luke's Hospice in Sheffield faced a financial deficit of about £537,000 for 2025-26 despite fundraising efforts, according to its most recent Quality Account report. There remained "a lot of uncertainty around funding and support" for the 20-bed in-patient hospice in Whirlow, the report stated. However, the document added that "thanks to careful financial planning, diverse income streams, and strong cost controls, we remain confident in our ability to keep St Luke's sustainable for the future". According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the report said rising staff costs continued to be "a big challenge, especially as NHS pay rises impact the wider job market". "The National Living Wage, rising National Insurance costs and the general increased costs of running our services all impact our finances," it said. "Our NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board funding for 24-25 was 23%, with the remaining 77% being raised through our own activity, such as fundraising and retail." St Luke's, which in 2024 won a Care Quality Commission overall rating of "outstanding", provides end-of-life and palliative care to almost 1,800 people a year and supports their families and carers. As well as its in-patient centre, the hospice provides care to people in their own homes or care homes, accounting for 88% of its patients. In the Quality Account report, Jo Lenton, the hospice's new chief executive and chief nurse, said: "This year, we launched our new strategy for 2025-29, which will help us address some of the challenges our communities will face in the coming years, while also strengthening St Luke's sustainability in light of increasing pressures on multiple fronts. "Our new strategy centres around a new vision of a world where patients and families facing terminal illness don't feel alone, and receive the care and support they need to make the most of precious time, and experience a good death." The report is expected to be discussed by Sheffield City Council's health scrutiny sub-committee on 5 June. Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North Hospice 'routinely' budgeting for annual deficits Kind and caring staff help hospice gain top rating St Luke's Hospice
BBC News
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Bardwell designer creates his final RHS Chelsea Flower Garden
A multi-award winning garden designer created his tenth and final garden for the RHS Chelsea Flower Hoblyn, who lives in Barwell, Suffolk, designed a sensory garden for the end-of-life charity, Hospice UK called Garden of Compassion. "I jumped at the chance at doing this," said Hoblyn, who has also designed gardens for children's hospices Haven House, in Woodford Green, east London and The Nook, near Norwich."There's a desperate shortage of gardens in hospices; they play a vital role in creating a positive atmosphere for end-of-life care." Hoblyn said it was important to create a design for the show that "grounds people in nature, and to activate all the senses"."Smell, sight, sound, touch is particularly important in a hospice garden," he added. The garden was inspired by Mediterranean themes, which allowed him to use very bright colours as well as heavily scented flowers, such as the Spanish broom, Spartium junceum."The fact you're using a lot of Mediterranean plants means you attract a lot of insects, so you get a lot of noise too," he many gardeners may have been mourning the lack of rain this spring, Hoblyn's dry and hot garden has not. "This is my 10th garden for Chelsea, and it's never been without rain before, so this is an absolute blessing, this is great," he said. 'We need to make way for young people' Explaining why this was his final Chelsea garden, he said he had spent 18 months on the Garden of Compassion. "It's a lot, and I do have real work I should be doing," he said."It's also time, we need more young people in horticulture, we need to make way [for them]."He added he would now like to devote some time to mentoring young people for designer has been involved with pieces at the London horticultural show for the past 25 years, winning many accolades."We've done well, but it's not just me - I just surround myself with the best people," he back, he said his highlights included winning the People's Choice award at Chelsea in 2012, again for a Mediterranean garden. "To get People's Choice is so rewarding, it's not just based on judges, but the people's views," he said. Hoblyn's garden was funded by Project Giving Back. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
