Where there is not one
120 of the 296 English local authority districts have no hospice giving an address in them. Before that sentence is quoted anywhere, read the next one.
It does not mean nobody there gets hospice care. Hospices serve catchments that cross council boundaries; a great deal of hospice care is delivered in people’s own homes by teams registered at an office somewhere else; and the NHS provides specialist palliative care that is not a hospice at all. This is a fact about a list of addresses, and it is the only fact on this page.
How the two groups compare
Deprivation here is the published measure: the share of a district’s neighbourhoods that fall in the most deprived tenth in England.
| Districts | How many | Mean share in the most deprived tenth |
|---|---|---|
| Have a hospice address | 176 | 9.8% |
| Do not | 120 | 4.7% |
Every district with no hospice address
Sorted by deprivation, most deprived first. A district near the top of this list is a place that is both poor and has no hospice building — which is the combination worth looking at, and still not a statement that anybody there is going without care.
| District | Share of neighbourhoods in the most deprived tenth |
|---|---|
| Burnley | 40.0% |
| Knowsley | 40.0% |
| Hyndburn | 32.1% |
| Great Yarmouth | 25.0% |
| Sheffield | 21.9% |
| Barnsley | 21.6% |
| South Tyneside | 21.4% |
| Tendring | 20.2% |
| Gateshead | 19.0% |
| Derby | 18.4% |
| Preston | 17.2% |
| Luton | 13.6% |
| Mansfield | 13.2% |
| Tower Hamlets | 13.0% |
| Wyre | 13.0% |
| Portsmouth | 12.0% |
| Norwich | 11.8% |
| Southampton | 11.8% |
| Chesterfield | 11.6% |
| Dover | 11.6% |
| Havant | 11.4% |
| West Lindsey | 11.3% |
| Gloucester | 11.0% |
| Gosport | 8.9% |
| North Tyneside | 8.3% |
| Basildon | 8.0% |
| East Suffolk | 7.6% |
| Folkestone and Hythe | 7.5% |
| Redditch | 7.0% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | 6.1% |
| Bolsover | 6.0% |
| West Lancashire | 5.5% |
| Newham | 5.4% |
| Rother | 5.2% |
| Trafford | 4.3% |
| Islington | 4.0% |
| Fylde | 3.9% |
| Amber Valley | 3.8% |
| Croydon | 3.5% |
| Ealing | 3.0% |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 3.0% |
| Maidstone | 3.0% |
| North Warwickshire | 2.6% |
| Bath and North East Somerset | 2.5% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 2.5% |
| Derbyshire Dales | 2.3% |
| Malvern Hills | 2.2% |
| Hounslow | 2.0% |
| Rochford | 1.9% |
| Mid Suffolk | 1.8% |
| Redbridge | 1.8% |
| Tewkesbury | 1.8% |
| Barking and Dagenham | 1.7% |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 1.7% |
| Harlow | 1.7% |
| Lewisham | 1.7% |
| North West Leicestershire | 1.7% |
| Hertsmere | 1.6% |
| South Derbyshire | 1.6% |
| Crawley | 1.5% |
| Dartford | 1.5% |
| Gedling | 1.3% |
| Sevenoaks | 1.3% |
| Breckland | 1.2% |
| Adur | 0.0% |
| Babergh | 0.0% |
| Bexley | 0.0% |
| Blaby | 0.0% |
| Bracknell Forest | 0.0% |
| Braintree | 0.0% |
| Brentwood | 0.0% |
| Broadland | 0.0% |
| Broxbourne | 0.0% |
| Broxtowe | 0.0% |
| Cambridge | 0.0% |
| City of London | 0.0% |
| East Cambridgeshire | 0.0% |
| East Hertfordshire | 0.0% |
| Epsom and Ewell | 0.0% |
| Fareham | 0.0% |
| Harborough | 0.0% |
| Harrow | 0.0% |
| Hart | 0.0% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth | 0.0% |
| Horsham | 0.0% |
| Huntingdonshire | 0.0% |
| Isles of Scilly | 0.0% |
| Kingston upon Thames | 0.0% |
| Maldon | 0.0% |
| Merton | 0.0% |
| Mole Valley | 0.0% |
| North Kesteven | 0.0% |
| North Norfolk | 0.0% |
| Oadby and Wigston | 0.0% |
| Reigate and Banstead | 0.0% |
| Ribble Valley | 0.0% |
| Runnymede | 0.0% |
| Rushcliffe | 0.0% |
| Rushmoor | 0.0% |
| Rutland | 0.0% |
| Slough | 0.0% |
| South Hams | 0.0% |
| South Staffordshire | 0.0% |
| Southwark | 0.0% |
| Spelthorne | 0.0% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | 0.0% |
| Stevenage | 0.0% |
| Surrey Heath | 0.0% |
| Tandridge | 0.0% |
| Teignbridge | 0.0% |
| Three Rivers | 0.0% |
| Uttlesford | 0.0% |
| Vale of White Horse | 0.0% |
| Wandsworth | 0.0% |
| Waverley | 0.0% |
| Wealden | 0.0% |
| West Berkshire | 0.0% |
| West Oxfordshire | 0.0% |
| Wokingham | 0.0% |
| Wychavon | 0.0% |
Why England only
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each publish their own deprivation indices, on their own scales. A figure averaged across four incompatible measures would be worse than no figure. The hospices in those nations are in the finder on the other page and are simply not in this comparison: 259 England, 18 Scotland, 16 Wales, 6 Northern Ireland, 2 Channel Islands, 1 Isle of Man.