{"id":365848,"date":"2026-01-12T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365848\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:49:07","slug":"birmingham-hospice-launches-24-7-end-of-life-support-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365848\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Hospice launches 24\/7 end-of-life support line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Twenty eight new jobs have been created to operate the service, which will be delivered by Birmingham Hospice, in partnership with the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Funding for Spur has come from the Macmillan Cancer Support end-of-life fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hospice also has an existing specialist community palliative care service, which operates from 08:00 to 20:00 GMT, and it is hoped Spur will complement this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This service will help patients remain in their preferred place of care and reduce unnecessary hospital admissions by providing wraparound support,&#8221; said Paul Bytheway, chief executive at Birmingham Hospice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It will reduce the exhaustion and anxiety we know can occur when patients, loved ones and carers don&#8217;t know where to turn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To access the service from 08:00 to 22:00, contact 0121 809 1900. From 22:00 to 08:00, the dedicated hotline number is 0300 555 1919.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty eight new jobs have been created to operate the service, which will be delivered by Birmingham Hospice,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-365848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}