Findings of the National End of Life Survey | 2023
Summary of findings: Care in a hospice in the last two days of life
In total, 487 participants said that their relative or friend died in a hospice. The highest-scoring questions related to kindness and compassion and pain management. 98.3% of bereaved relatives (464 of 472) said that their relative or friend was always treated with kindness and compassion by healthcare staff during the last two days of their life. 97.4% (450 of 462) said that healthcare staff did everything they could to manage their loved one’s pain. The lowest-scoring question was Q85, with 6.4% (15 of people 236) saying that the healthcare staff who told their relative or friend that they were likely to die did not do so in a sensitive and caring way.
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