Hospice Malta delivers 37,000 hours of patient sessions in 2021

Hospice Malta recently held its 33rd annual general meeting at the President’s Palace in Attard.

In his annual report, Kenneth Delia, CEO of Hospice Malta, gave an in-depth overview of how Hospice has adjusted to new working practices, its investment in IT for patient contact, as well as for contact between Hospice professionals, its continued efforts to ensure efficiency, effectiveness and accessibility, the  development and training provided to its team of professionals and care workers and the ongoing and increased use of social media as a means of engagement with both patients and the public.

He then gave a summary of operations, highlighting the growing patient numbers – 1,308 in 2021, who benefitted from around 37,000 sessions through physical and virtual home visits, an increase of five per cent in home visits and 23 per cent in patient online assessments.

A significant increase was also noted in the number of hours provided through Hospice’s dedicated professional care assistants’ service, which nearly doubled from the previous year – more than 17,000 hours of service were delivered at patients’ homes. Free equipment loans from Hospice amounted to 1,678 items, helping...