2008 Annual Review. Page 5.

Annual Activity Report and Trends

St Luke's Hospice's charitable activity is centred on the provision of specialist palliative care to those within its catchment area suffering from advanced progressive illnesses. During 2008, we were able to refurbish our inpatient areas and also part of our day care areas thanks to grants for the Department of health and a number of trusts. This did result in some closure periods which are reflected in the activity report below

2008 ANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT

	2008
All services
Total no of individual patients	489
Total no of patients receiving a mixture of services	225
No of services accessed	812

Home Care Services
Brent North Community. Number of Patients	246
Brent North number of home visits	1311
Hospice at Home. Number of referrals	256
Hospice at Home episodes of care	4684

In Patient Unit
Inpatient admissions	254
Inpatient occupancy	63.6%
Average length of stay	11 days

Day Care Unit and Outpatients
Daycare unit patients	199
Daycare unit booked attendances	3183
Daycare occupancy	70%
Patients attending Outpatients	156
Outpatient appointments	314

Patient characteristics
Non cancer diagnoses	11.2%
Ethnic minorities	47%

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