St Leonard's Hospice

Who we are

St Leonard’s Hospice is an independent charity, providing palliative and end-of-life care in York and across North Yorkshire.

We are here to help and support anyone living with a life-limiting illness and those they care about. We also provide bereavement support for anyone in our community dealing with grief. Our services include our in-patient unit, Hospice@Home, Carer Support Service, Single Point of Coordination telephone service, bereavement and family support plus our Sunflower Wellbeing Hub. Our care is always provided free of charge to patients and their families, but it is not free to provide. As a charity we rely heavily on the generosity of the public to help raise the £7.9 million it costs each year to run St Leonard’s Hospice. Although St Leonard’s does get some public funding the majority of the running costs have to be raised from donations and fundraising by our local community.

Our culture and values

Our Vision

Everyone living with a life-limiting illness has access to the best possible care and will be supported to die well.

Our Mission

Our mission is to help more people across York and North Yorkshire by:

• Developing accessible services based on the diverse and changing needs of our population.
• Campaigning for better public policy and awareness of palliative and end-of-life issues.
• Encouraging partnership working to improve the quality of care for patients and secure the future of hospice care.

Our Cares Values

Compassion - compassion sits at the core of the services we deliver, and our interactions with others

Accountability - we take our role of custodians of the Hospice seriously, and act accountably

Respect - we respect everyone, regardless of role or background, and the environment we work so hard to create

Excellence - for us excellence is a habit, and we set and hold high standards for our service and behaviour

Synergy - we are a group of people with a shared passion for our Hospice who create synergy through collaboration