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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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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.

Latest News

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.

Struggling hospice nurses shattered by pay equity changes

This year’s Hospice Awareness Week comes as hospices struggle to keep their doors open because of a lack of Government funding and nurses’ chances of fair pay shattered by the removal of their pay equity claim, NZNO says.
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) hospice pay equity claim was filed in late-2023 covering 27 hospices employing its members. That claim, alongside nine others for NZNO, were thrown out by the Government last week with its to pay equity law changes.

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