Abstract · An annual report is always prepared about the Hungarian hospice care, also published on the website: hospice annual reports , by the Hungarian Hospice-Palliative Association. Every 10 years the data are published in Kharón, as well, so that the general public may have access to all the relevant information. The 2020 report presents the number and geographical distribution of currently active hospice institutions, on the basis of the the organisational forms; the patient and financing data of institutional and home-based care; moreover, the difficulties which, during the COVID pandemic, made the dedicated work of the healthcare operators of the field even more challenging.