📋About
St Barnabas House adult hospice (Worthing): Inpatient Unit (188 admissions); Community Palliative Care Team (9,872 phone contacts, 4,228 appointments); Hospice at Home (18,503 hours, 9,602 visits); Physiotherapy (1,772 sessions); Occupational Therapy (1,126 sessions); Complementary Therapy (975 sessions); bereavement counselling (4,153 sessions); Living Well programme; Care 2 Care education and advice service. Chestnut Tree House children's hospice (Barnham): 149 children; 1,812 bed nights; 1,250 nursing visits; 1,462 counselling and therapy sessions; new Play Park and Sensory Garden; Wind in the Willows wing renovation; transition care for young adults
Custom geography from upload: Sussex
📊Key Metrics
1,544 patients at St Barnabas House; 293 children and young people at Chestnut Tree House; 47,043 patients and families cared for since founding in 1973
Key Metric 1
18,503 hours of Hospice at Home care across 9,602 visits; 4,228 community palliative care appointments; 4,153 social work, counselling and bereavement sessions
Key Metric 2
Martlets Hospice merger announced — one of the most significant hospice consolidations in South East England; total reported income £33.0m including £12.4m one-off Martlets merger income
Key Metric 3
✅Key Outcomes
- Chestnut Tree House nurse won Best Nurse at national 2023 WellChild Awards — recognising exceptional dedication to children with serious illness; Chestnut Tree House reached finals of Nursing Times national awards for post-pandemic social isolation outreach
- Wind in the Willows wing refurbishment completed March 2024 — larger, specially adapted bedrooms and bathrooms at Chestnut Tree House; St Barnabas House Inpatient Unit refurbished for future service delivery
- St Barnabas and Martlets merger announced — creating a unified, financially sustainable hospice offer across Sussex with seamless patient care maintained throughout transition; 348 external delegates attended education and training courses delivered by St Barnabas in 2023/24