Care in your home
Specialist palliative care nurses visit you and your family at home, with symptom relief, emotional support and advice.
Referred by your GP, hospital consultant or palliative care team
Our Services
Foyle Hospice is a charity providing specialist palliative care services for patients with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses while supporting their families and loved ones across the Western Health and Social Trust area in Northern Ireland.
Palliative and end-of-life care is provided to people with life-limiting illnesses, which can include heart and lung disease, dementia, advanced cancer, and other progressive neurological illnesses, alongside providing support for their family and carers.
Our aim is to offer the best quality of life for our patients and their families, tailoring care to meet their individual needs.
All of our services are provided free of charge.
We rely heavily on our generous donors and community fundraisers to allow us to continue providing our specialist care.
Our Services
Together, with your ongoing support, we can help others during a difficult time in their palliative and end of life care journey. Even when days cannot be added to life, Foyle Hospice aims to ensure that life is added to days.
Hospice Care...it's more thank you think!
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Specialist palliative care · Free of charge
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Together we care.
Foyle Hospice is a charity providing specialist palliative care for people with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses, and support for their families and loved ones, across the Western Health and Social Care Trust area.
- Every service is free of charge
- 24-hour advice: 028 7135 1010
- Western Trust area
Read this page in short
- Foyle Hospice has six services. All of them are free.
- Care in your home: specialist nurses visit you and your family at home.
- Inpatient Unit: nurses and doctors look after you, day and night.
- Day Therapy: a day at the hospice with therapies, company and a break for carers.
- Adult bereavement support: free counselling before and after a death.
- Healing Hearts: free support for children and young people aged 4 to 18.
- Patient services: 24-hour telephone advice and chaplaincy.
- For most services a doctor or nurse refers you. Bereavement support can be self-referred.
- Not sure where to start? Call us on 028 7135 1010, day or night.
Hospice care
More than you think
Hospice care is about helping people live as well as they can, for as long as they can, and supporting the people closest to them.
We care for people living with illnesses that cannot be cured, including advanced cancer, heart and lung disease, dementia and progressive neurological illness. Care is planned around you and your family, wherever you are: at home, with us for a day, or in our Inpatient Unit. Even when days cannot be added to life, we aim to add life to days.
What we offer
Our services
Inpatient Unit
A calm, purpose-built unit in gardens by the River Foyle. Nurses and doctors care for you day and night, and your family can be close.
Referred by a health professional
Day Therapy
A day at the hospice with nursing support, therapies, activities and company. Your carer gets a break too.
Referred by your GP, consultant, specialist nurse or another hospice service
Adult bereavement support
Free counselling for adults facing loss or coping with grief, one-to-one, as a family or in a group.
Referral by a professional, or you can contact us yourself
Healing Hearts
Free support for children and young people aged 4 to 18 who have been bereaved, or whose loved one is seriously ill.
Families, schools and professionals can refer
Patient services
24-hour telephone advice from a nurse or doctor, and chaplaincy for patients, families and carers.
Call 028 7135 1010
Not sure where to start?
Which service might help?
- I want to stay at home with specialist support Home care →
- My symptoms are hard to manage, or my carer needs a rest Inpatient Unit →
- I would like company, therapies and a change of scene Day Therapy →
- I am grieving, or facing the loss of someone close Adult support →
- A child or young person I care about has been bereaved Healing Hearts →
- I need advice from a nurse or doctor now 028 7135 1010
Getting started
Who can refer, and how
Most services start with a referral from a health professional. If you are unsure, call us on 028 7135 1010 and we will talk it through with you. Health professionals can use the Foyle Hospice referral form.
Care in your home
GP, hospital consultant or hospital palliative care team.
Inpatient Unit
GP, hospital consultant, palliative care team, or our own community nurses and Day Therapy team.
Day Therapy
GP, hospital consultant, clinical nurse specialist, or another Foyle Hospice service. You cannot refer yourself.
Adult bereavement
GP, district nurse, community specialist nursing team, palliative care team, or you can refer yourself.
Healing Hearts
Self-referral, district nurse, community specialist nursing team, school, palliative care team or GP.
Where we are
Care across the Western Trust
Foyle Hospice supports people across the Western Health and Social Care Trust area. The Inpatient Unit, Day Therapy and our bereavement services are at the hospice on Culmore Road, Derry~Londonderry. Our Community Specialist Palliative Care nurses work in two sectors, so that care reaches people where they live.
- Foyle Hospice, Derry~LondonderryInpatient Unit, Day Therapy, adult counselling and Healing Hearts. 61 Culmore Road, BT48 8JE. Home of our Northern Sector community team.
- Omagh Hospital and Primary Care ComplexBase for our Southern Sector community nurses supporting people at home in the Omagh area.
- South West Acute Hospital, EnniskillenBase for our Southern Sector community nurses supporting people at home across Fermanagh.
2025/26
A year of care in numbers
Behind every number is a person, a family and a story of kindness and expert care.
1,048referrals to our community teams across both sectors
143people admitted to the Inpatient Unit
772attendances at Day Therapy
111children and young people referred to Healing Hearts
93new adult counselling clients
332volunteers, including 40 who joined this year
Figures from the Foyle Hospice Annual Report 2025/26 (April 2025 to March 2026). Community referrals are 657 Northern Sector plus 391 Southern Sector.
Watch
The questions people are afraid to ask
Many people only associate hospice with the end of life. Our Myth Buster series answers the questions about hospice care that people often find hard to ask.
Our Myth Buster series, from Foyle Hospice.
Annual Report 2025/26
See the year in full
Read about the care we provided from April 2025 to March 2026, in the words of the families and patients we looked after.
Talk to us
We are here, day and night
Patients, families, carers and health professionals can phone the hospice at any time and ask for a nurse or doctor. Useful to have to hand: the diagnosis, any medication, and what is worrying you. We may advise on symptoms, or point you to out-of-hours services.
Common questions
Things people often ask
Do I have to pay for Foyle Hospice services?
No. All Foyle Hospice services are free of charge to patients and their families.
Who can use Foyle Hospice services?
Adults with a life-limiting illness, including cancer, heart and lung disease, dementia and progressive neurological illness, and their families and carers. Children and young people aged 4 to 18 can use Healing Hearts.
Can I refer myself?
Most services need a referral from a health professional. Adult bereavement support and Healing Hearts also accept self-referrals.
Together we care
Every service is free because our community keeps it that way
Donations fund the majority of what we do. £15 could fund a Day Therapy session, £30 an hour of care in the Inpatient Unit and £78 a visit to someone at home.