St. Michael's Hospice

What St. Michael's Hospice does

St. Michael's Hospice is a United Kingdom-registered non-profit organisation headquartered in Basingstoke, founded in 1991 by Margaret Weston. It provides palliative care, psychological support, and social support services for people living with life-limiting illnesses, operating within the local hospice care model that combines inpatient, day, and community-based end-of-life services typically funded through a mix of NHS commissioning, local authority grants, and charitable donations.

The organisation employs between 101 and 250 staff, consistent with a mid-sized regional hospice serving a defined geographic catchment rather than a national provider. No proprietary technology platforms, digital products, applications, or AI/ML capabilities are disclosed in the available data, and the underlying service delivery model is therefore best characterised as a clinical and care service operation rather than a technology-enabled business. The website (stmichaelshospice.org.uk) functions as the primary public-facing channel.

No commercial revenue, pricing model, funding rounds, partnerships, customer segments, or strategic transactions are documented in the input data, so the business model specifics beyond the standard UK hospice mix of statutory and charitable funding cannot be confirmed.

Name

St. Michael's Hospice

Website

https://stmichaelshospice.org.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

St. Michael's Hospice is a Basingstoke-based UK non-profit, founded in 1991, that provides palliative, psychological, and social care for people with life-limiting illnesses. It employs 101-250 staff and operates as a regional hospice serving its local community.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hospice & Palliative Care

NAICS

Home Health Care Services (62161)

SIC

Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050), Services-Home Health Care Services (8082)

akta.pro primary industry

Palliative Care, Hospice & Serious Illness Support (BPAGACAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Residential Hospice / Hospice House (Facility-Based) (HLADAHAC), Home Hospice (Routine Home Care) (HLADAHAA)

Keywords

• Palliative care services
• Hospice care
• End-of-life care
• Bereavement support
• Community healthcare

Headquarters

HQ city

Basingstoke

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Core offering

St. Michael's Hospice is a UK-based non-profit hospice that provides palliative care, psychological support, and social support for people living with life-limiting illnesses. Founded in 1991 in Basingstoke, it delivers holistic end-of-life care and bereavement support to patients and their families.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Palliative Care Specialist medical and nursing care for people living with life-limiting illnesses, focused on pain and symptom management.
• Psychological Support Emotional and psychological counselling for patients and families coping with life-limiting illness.
• Social Support Social work and practical support services for patients and their families facing life-limiting illness.
• Hospice & End-of-Life Care Specialist residential and inpatient hospice care for individuals with terminal illness.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• Marie Curie: UK's leading charitable provider of hospice care and end-of-life support, with a network of hospices and a community nursing service. Directly comparable on mission, charitable status, and palliative-care delivery model.
• St. Christopher's Hospice: London-based charitable hospice and the founding site of the modern hospice movement. Operates inpatient, home, and community palliative care services on a nonprofit basis, mirroring St. Michael's clinical and funding model.
• Trinity Hospice: Blackpool-based charitable hospice offering inpatient, day therapy, and community palliative care. Comparable in single-catchment nonprofit hospice operations and reliance on charitable income.
• Countess Mountbatten Hospice: Southampton-based hospice charity providing specialist palliative care, including inpatient, community, and bereavement services. Comparable as a regional UK hospice operating across multiple service modalities.
• Douglas Macmillan Hospice: Stoke-on-Trent based charitable hospice delivering adult and bereavement palliative care services. Comparable as a UK regional nonprofit hospice reliant on charitable donations and NHS contracts.

Broad incumbents

• Sue Ryder: Major UK charity operating multiple hospices, neurological care centres, and community services. Comparable as a multi-site nonprofit palliative and end-of-life care provider serving similar patient populations in the UK.
• Macmillan Cancer Support: Major UK cancer charity providing specialist nursing, financial, and palliative support to people with life-limiting illness. Comparable as a complementary charity working alongside hospices on psychosocial and end-of-life care, though it does not directly run hospices.

Regional players

• Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice: Farnham-based (Surrey/Hampshire) charitable hospice serving a catchment geographically adjacent to Basingstoke. Closest geographic peer with directly overlapping referral and donor pools in the same region of southern England.
• Cynthia Spencer Hospice: Northamptonshire-based charitable hospice offering inpatient, day, and community palliative care. Comparable as a regional UK hospice of similar size and clinical remit.

Others

• Hospice UK: National membership body for UK hospices. Indirect comparator as the central advocacy, training, and standards organisation for the sector in which St. Michael's operates.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/smhbasingstoke

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Investments

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