St Joseph's Hospice

What St Joseph's Hospice does

St Joseph's Hospice is a London-based palliative and end-of-life care provider, founded in 1905, that today operates with 251–500 employees under the leadership of Chief Executive Officer Tony McLean. Its core business is the delivery of specialist palliative, hospice, and bereavement care to patients and families, typically in an East London catchment, alongside the development of a national, patient-led end-of-life and palliative care web portal intended for use by the NHS. The portal represents the organization's most explicit productized effort, funded in 2013 by a £/US$155,091 SBRI Healthcare (NHS-aligned Small Business Research Initiative) grant, and signals an attempt to extend clinical and patient-facing capabilities beyond a single-site hospice model. The website at stjh.org.uk is the primary digital surface; beyond the portal, no proprietary technology stack, integrations, or AI/ML capabilities are disclosed in the available data.

The business model is not that of a venture-backed technology company. As a hospice provider, the organization is predominantly funded by NHS grants, local authority contracts, and charitable donations and legacies, rather than by product or subscription revenue. Pricing models, customer counts, segment mix, and direct revenue figures are not disclosed in the source material, and the organization is classified as private and UK-domiciled. Commercial product information, GTM motion, marketing channels, certifications, partnerships, and M&A history are likewise absent from the input. The investment-relevant picture is therefore one of a long-established, regulated care provider that has begun a single, modest digital initiative, with substantial unaddressed data gaps on revenue scale, unit economics, and competitive positioning.

Name

St Joseph's Hospice

Website

https://stjh.org.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1905

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

St Joseph's Hospice is a London-based palliative and end-of-life care provider, founded in 1905, that delivers specialist hospice services and is developing a national, NHS-targeted patient-led palliative care web portal.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hospice and Palliative Care Services

NAICS

Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly (62331), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Skilled Nursing Care Facilities (8051)

akta.pro primary industry

Home Hospice Agencies (HLAFAEAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community-Based Palliative Care (Home-Based Non-Hospice) (HLADAHAH), End-of-Life Planning & Hospice/Palliative Care Coordination (HLADALAL), Palliative Care, Hospice & Serious Illness Support (BPAGACAK)

Keywords

• Palliative care services
• End of life care
• Hospice care
• Patient care portal
• Specialist nursing

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Core offering

St Joseph's Hospice provides specialist palliative and end-of-life care services to patients with life-limiting illnesses. It is also developing a national patient-led end-of-life and palliative care web portal intended for use by UK health services, funded in part by an SBRI Healthcare innovation grant.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Specialist palliative and end-of-life care Inpatient and community specialist palliative and end-of-life care services delivered to patients with life-limiting illnesses, supported by a multidisciplinary clinical team of 251-500 staff at the London hospice site.
• National patient-led end of life and palliative care web portal A national patient-led web portal for end-of-life and palliative care, developed for use across the UK health service to support patients and clinicians in palliative care delivery.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Marie Curie: National UK charity operating hospices and a community nursing service for terminally ill patients. Comparable end-of-life service portfolio and NHS/charitable funding model, with broader geographic reach than St Joseph's.
• Macmillan Cancer Support: UK charity funding palliative and end-of-life cancer nursing, information services, and patient support. Comparable patient population (serious illness / end-of-life), funding model, and overlap with hospice and community palliative services.
• Sue Ryder: UK charity running hospices, neurological care centres, and palliative home care. Directly comparable service mix (inpatient hospice + community palliative care) at a national footprint scale.

Direct peers

• North London Hospice: North London hospice providing inpatient, day, and community palliative care. Comparable in mission, multi-modality service model, and NHS-aligned funding model to St Joseph's.
• ellenor Hospice: Kent-based hospice providing inpatient care, hospice at home, and community palliative services. Comparable multi-modality hospice model and similar reliance on NHS contracts and charitable donations.
• Royal Trinity Hospice: London-based adult hospice offering inpatient, community, and palliative care services. Closely comparable to St Joseph's in scale, geography, and multi-modality hospice model.
• Helen & Douglas House: Oxford-based hospice providing palliative and end-of-life care (predominantly for children and young adults). Comparable UK hospice operating model and NHS/charity funding mix, with a different age-specialisation.
• Princess Alice Hospice: Surrey-based hospice offering inpatient, community, and bereavement support. Highly comparable operating model (charitable hospice with NHS contracts) and similar service breadth.

Others

• Hospice UK: National membership and advocacy body for UK hospices. Not a direct service competitor, but represents the collective voice, policy, and digital/quality initiatives across the UK hospice sector that St Joseph's both participates in and is benchmarked against.

Emerging players

• Coordinate My Care (NHS / Royal Marsden): London-originated digital urgent and palliative care plan service used across the NHS. Relevant comparable for St Joseph's planned national palliative care web portal — overlapping patient-led digital end-of-life planning use case.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/StJoHospice
• Facebookfacebook.com/StJoHospice

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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