End of life care contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most end of life care contracts took 31% of them (18 of 59).
• The median contract, £983k, is 9.3 times the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
• North West had the most contracts: 14, or 24% of the total.

1. 1NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB11 contracts£9.3m
2. 2NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board6 contracts£9.9m
3. 3NHS North West London ICB4 contracts£8.6m
4. 4NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board4 contracts£3.3m
5. 5NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership4 contracts£2.3m
6. 6NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board3 contracts£7.2m
7. 7NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Board2 contracts£18.0m
8. 8NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board2 contracts£6.4m
9. 9NHS Devon Integrated Care Board2 contracts£1.5m
10. 10NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board2 contracts£470k

1. 1Marie Curie10 contracts£11.1m
2. 2Sue Ryder2 contracts£4.3m
3. 3Shooting Star Children's Hospices2 contracts£1.3m
4. 4Queenscourt Hospice2 contracts£342k
5. 5Forget Me Not Children's Hospice2 contracts£280k
6. 6SUPPORTIVE CARE (UK) LIMITED2 contracts£115k
7. 7Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice2 contracts£11k
8. 8Arthur Rank Hospice Charity1 contract£14.2m
9. 9ASHGATE HOSPICE1 contract£5.9m
10. 10North London Hospice1 contract£5.8m

Latest

• Children and Young People's Specialist Palliative and End of Life Care Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.4m

  NHS Thames Valley Integrated Care Board to Helen and Douglas House · Awarded 30 September 2026

• EOL - Hospice Care (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £363k

  NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board to Childrens Hospice South West · Awarded 3 September 2026

• Provision for support for those with life-limiting conditions (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £103k

  Hull City Council to DOVE HOUSE HOSPICE LIMITED · Awarded 26 August 2026

• Palliative End of Life Care Adult Rapid Response Service in Northamptonshire (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £454k

  NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board to DHU Healthcare · Awarded 17 August 2026

• BTH Palliative Care Outsourcing Trinity Hospice (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £500k

  Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to Trinity Hospice and Trinity Hospice and Palliative Care Services · Awarded 5 August 2026

• Hospice services for babies, children and young people (BCYP) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £38k

  NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board to Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice and Cope Children's Trust · Awarded 13 July 2026

• QHM-2024-8259 Hospice Services - Tees Valley (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £999k

  NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board to Alice House Hospice · Awarded 1 July 2026

• End of Life & Palliative Care Service (West Norfolk) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £3.2m

  NHS Suffolk/Norfolk commissioning bodies to Tapping House Hospice · Awarded 22 June 2026

• Haven House - Hospice at Home (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £385k

  NHS North East London Integrated Care Board to Haven House Children's Hospice · Awarded 11 June 2026

• NHSWYCIB - Variable Planned Night Care Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £350k

  NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board to Marie Curie · Awarded 8 June 2026

Largest

• Specialist Palliative Care (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £14.2m

  NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Board to Arthur Rank Hospice Charity · Awarded 16 January 2026

• NHS Lanarkshire End of Life and Hospice Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £11.7m

  NHS Lanarkshire to supplier not published · Awarded 11 November 2025

• Palliative and End of Life Care Hospice Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £5.9m

  NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board to ASHGATE HOSPICE, Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice, Blythe House, Marie Curie and Rainbows Children's Hospice · Awarded 21 May 2026

• End of Life - C405876 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £5.8m

  NHS North West London ICB to North London Hospice · Awarded 24 February 2026

Specialist palliative care, adult and children's hospice services, hospice respite for children with life-shortening conditions and overnight palliative care at home.

• Adult community and specialist palliative care
• Children's hospice care and short breaks
• Overnight palliative care at home
• End of life health care for people with progressive illness

• Fast-track placements in care homes with nursing (soc.res.nursing-home-placements)
• Fast-track care packages at home (soc.home.complex-care-at-home)
• Palliative medicines stocking in pharmacies (hlt.primary.community-pharmacy-services)
• General bereavement support (soc.prev.bereavement-support)

• Drug and alcohol services
• Community elective services
• Genitourinary medicine
• Falls prevention

• GP enhanced services
• Community eye care