The Marie Curie Responsive Emergency Assessment and Community Team (REACT) in Bradford is a flagship palliative and end-of-life care service launched in 2022 using social investment from the Care and Wellbeing Fund. Three years on there’s been a dramatic improvement in patient outcomes, with those in the last year of life spending 21 fewer days in hospital. REACT is now fully funded by Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The Rapid Intervention for Palliative and End-of-Life Care (RIPEL) project, the first service to be launched through the Macmillan End-of-Life Care Fund, has reduced the number of days people spend in hospital in the last year of life by 11. The team behind it say its success is down to the unique partnership between Social Finance, Macmillan Cancer Support, Oxford University Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust (OUH) and Sobell House Hospice Charity.

Social Finance is the learning partner for Connected Futures – an initiative by the Youth Futures Foundation, supporting young people to find good, sustainable work.