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Hospice provides holistic wrap around care and support for people with a life limiting illness, and their whānau/family. Everything provided through our 32 hospices around the country is free of charge.

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Your local hospice

Find a hospice near you or a loved one with our map of all hospices throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Hospice needs you

There are lots of ways you can support hospice, from becoming a partner, taking part in an event, supporting your local Hospice, making a donation, or leaving a gift in...

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Stories

Everyone’s journey with hospice as they approach the end of their life is unique. People value different things and have different concerns, as they do in every day life. Watch these stories to understanding the care, the value, the comfort that Hospice provides.

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Hospice Heroes

Hospice Heroes is must see TV.  Streaming on TV3Now, this series is about the people who work and volunteer at South Auckland’s Tōtara Hospice. In Hospice Heroes, staff, patients and their whānau share their experience of end-of-life care. Dr James Jap is one of them.

Listen to Dr James talk on RNZ Sunday Morning about death, why we need to open up and discuss death more often, and how his workplace can often be filled with joy and laughter. 

Hospices are at Tipping Point - Why don't MPs care?

"Dead people don't vote, of course. But maybe politicians have forgotten that their families do"

Read the Editorial in the Sunday Star Times highlighting the stark truth that our hospice sector is in crisis.

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