Tel Hashomer Hospice
The hospice employs around 30 full and part time staff: medical director, inpatient hospice physician (also co-ordinates research), for the inpatient unit, 10 full time nurses including a head nurse and 10 part time nurses, secretary, part time social worker, physiotherapist and clinical psychologist. Other professionals are called in as needed including occupational therapists and a spiritual counsellor. The home care staff includes one physician, 3 home care nurses, a part time social worker.⁹⁸ The home care team can request a physiotherapist from the HMO for a patient if needed. The hospice also has support from around 22 volunteers.^99,100

Ina and Jack Kaye
The hospice employs around 29 full time and part time staff: hospice director, physician, 25 nurses (3 nurses rotate duties between home care and inpatient unit), 2 social workers. They can also call on external services for a psychologist and physiotherapist when needed.¹⁰¹

Cancer Pain and Palliative Medicine Service, Sha’are Zedek Medical Centre, Jerusalem
The service employs around 32 full time staff: 5 full time physicians, including 2 oncologists, a physician fellow, a consultation psychiatrist, a clinical psychologist, a specialist palliative care nurse, a research and education co-ordinator (who is also a clinical pharmacologist), 3 multi-lingual social workers, a spiritual counsellor, a palliative care nurse for the day care unit, 7 oncology nurses, inpatient ward staffing is allocated an additional 6 nurses according to patient numbers and 4 nursing aides. There are also regular placements for up to 4 medical internees, and for medical, nursing and spiritual counselling students.

Negev Palliative Care Services
The service employs a total of around 22 full and part time staff. The service also has placements for 3 or 4 physicians at any one time who are completing residencies in palliative medicine as part of their family medicine training. Around 12 full time and part time staff are based in Beersheva: head of division, medical director, 4 part time physicians, 1 full-time and 3 part time nurses, a full-time social worker and a part time social worker who can be called upon from another facility. Two part time physicians and 2 part time nurses are based in Qiryat Gat. One part time physician, one part time nurse and a part time driver are based in Rahat. The mobile desert unit is allocated 3 part time staff: a physician, a nurse and a driver. A social worker and a group of volunteers are based at Ma’agan House.¹⁰²

Milton and Lois Shiffman Home Hospice in the Valleys
The hospice employs 31 part time staff: Hospice Manager, 6 physicians including the Medical Director, 16 nurses, 6 social workers, and a team secretary. One of the social workers is also the volunteer co-ordinator managing around 20 volunteers at any one time.¹⁰³

Jerusalem Home Hospital
The service employs around 50 staff including 2 consultant geriatricians, a consultant medical oncologist, 30 part time physicians (paid on a fee per patient basis), 7 full time and 5 part time senior nurses (including a specialist oncology nurse), 35 part time nurses, speech therapist, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, social worker, dietician.
Volunteers offer additional support for patients and families.¹⁰⁴

Nancy Caroline Hospice of the Upper Galilee (HUG)
The hospice employs 13 staff: medical director, 3 physicians, 4 nurses (one is a specialist palliative care nurse) a social worker, part time music thanatologist, art therapist, secretary, clinical psychologist. The hospice has support from a group of trained volunteers.¹⁰⁵

Home Care Hospice of Kiryat Tivon, Northern Israel
The hospice is run by 12 paid and volunteer professionals and 20 trained lay volunteers. Professional staff includes 4 on-call physicians plus an internist physician, head nurse, 2 oncology nurses, social worker, physiotherapist, occupational therapist and a yoga teacher.¹⁰⁶

Exact numbers of workforce are not available for other adult and paediatric hospital based services, community or other non-specialist services. There are ICA funded individual specialist nurses in some adult and paediatric oncology units.