Our impact in 2025-26

Sue Ryder is alongside people through terminal illness, death and grief. We provide expert palliative and end-of-life care and grief support, offering hope, dignity and kindness. Here, you can find out more about the difference our vital care and services have made over the past year.

Palliative and end-of-life care

We delivered more than 657,000 hours of palliative and end-of-life care.
Around 600 Sue Ryder Nurses, doctors and healthcare professionals provided expert care to people approaching the end of their lives.
Our palliative and end-of-life care teams supported patients and their families during 132,000 telephone calls.
Over 589,000 face-to-face visits were made by our Hospice at Home and Community teams, giving essential care to patients.

The Sue Ryder Nurses were actually there the day Mum passed away, and it was very reassuring to have someone there who knew what to do and could step in or help if needed.

Richard, speaking about the care of his mum Sandra received from our Hospice at Home team in South Oxfordshire

End-of-life care: Molly's story

Bereavement support

We had more than 270,000 visitors to our Online Bereavement Community, with people sharing over 88,200 posts.
We delivered 5,635 Online Bereavement Counselling sessions.
Over 46,000 users actively engaged with support pages on our self-help platform, Grief Guide.

I found the sessions really helpful…you can be completely vulnerable with somebody you have no relationship with.

Vijay, who used our Online Bereavement Counselling Service