Summary of a national survey of health professionals and volunteers working in voluntary hospices

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The economics of hospice volunteering

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Hospice day care A qualitative study

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Hospice directory 2003 Hospice and palliative care services in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland

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A cloak around the world A report of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Associations Seminar, held 30 March - 1 April 2003 in The Hague

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Accounting for Voluntary Hospices in England: A Business Model Perspective

This paper accounts for the sustainability of voluntary hospices in England that provide palliative end of life care for patients. A critical evaluation of the challenges facing hospices in England can be located within a ‘descriptive business model’ that makes visible stakeholder relations. Changes to these stakeholder relations, and how they impact upon the viability of the hospice business model, can be captured within a ‘narratives and numbers’ investigative framework. Interviews with senior clinical and non-clinical managers in four hospices provide rich ‘narratives’ that reveal how the hospice business model is evolving. Whilst financial disclosures extracted from hospice financial statements generate ‘numbers’ which can be employed to explore the impact of changes in stakeholder relations upon financial viability. Our argument is that the hospice business model depends upon sustaining a complex network of stakeholder relations in order to maintain operational and financial viability