Facts and Figures - St Gemma's Hospice

Last Year in Numbers (2018/19)

• In total, St Gemma’s supported over 3,000 local people in the last year

• 1,228 local people were referred to St Gemma’s Hospice care for the first time

• The St Gemma’s community team, of doctors and nurses, made 5,005 visits to patients in their own homes

• We cared for 517 patients in the Hospice In-Patient Unit

• Around a third of patients admitted to St Gemma’s Hospice In-Patient Unit were discharged and the average length of stay was 13 days

• There were 1,236 attendances to St Gemma’s Day Services, with increasing numbers of people accessing the new range of clinics and sessions

• We trained 640 external healthcare professionals and had 118 student placements, supporting them to deliver the best possible care in the future

• Our team of volunteers contributed over 124,000 hours across all areas, including bereavement support, gardening, fundraising and administration

• 26% of our income came from our grant from the NHS. The rest was raised by our brilliant and committed community of supporters

• We had 610,000 customers to our chain of 24 charity shops and 1.14 million items were sold in the year

• 21,000 people took part in a fundraising event

• 60 people made a final gift by remembering St Gemma’s Hospice in their will.

Our people:

St Gemma’s Hospice has approximately 255 employees. Of those, 160 employees directly support patient care (such as nursing and medical teams, social workers, housekeepers and therapists). The remainder work in non-patient areas, such as our charity shops, income generation department and support teams such as Finance and IT.

St Gemma’s Hospice has a team of approximately 940 volunteers, working in a variety of roles supporting departments throughout the organisation.

Donations make a real difference and could pay for the following…

£2 could buy a patient information pack, giving practical advice to patients and carers

£5 could provide a memory box for a bereaved child. They can store sentimental trinkets inside to help them cope with their loss

£10 provides a delicious 3-course meal for one of our In-Patients, freshly cooked by our chefs

£15 helps keep a patient mobile and independent by providing physiotherapy support

£30 provides expert telephone advice and support to a patient at home

£50 provides support to a child experiencing a loved one’s illness and death via group sessions

£75 provides a complementary therapy session for a patient, or carer, which could include massage, aromatherapy or hypnotherapy to relieve stress and anxiety

£100 could provide a specialist bereavement support session for someone struggling to cope with the loss of a loved one

£145 provides an intravenous therapy to an Out-Patient

£250 for a St Gemma’s community team member to visit a patient in their own home and provide clinical advice and practical support

£325 pays for a patient to spend the day at St Gemma’s Day Services

£450 per day funds care for one In-Patient staying at the Hospice, covering everything from expert care, to pain relief and meals

£750 will help fund a syringe driver, a battery operated pump that provides continuous, effective pain relief. This reduces the number of injections or medicines that the patient needs

£1,040 covers the cost of providing all our services for an hour

£3,000 could buy a specialist bed to give a patient as much comfort and support as possible

£6,500 is the cost, on average, of caring for an individual patient referred to our services

£12,000 is the cost of running our family support team for a month – offering practical and emotional support to people through the most difficult time in their lives

£20,000 needs to be raised every day to run all St Gemma’s services and activities.