Palliative Care: Children
(asked on 16th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the increasing cost of providing children's palliative care since 2006-07.
This question was answered on 19th January 2017
The Department has not made a formal estimate of any increase in the costs of providing children’s palliative care since 2006-07.
NHS England is currently reviewing provider costs as part of a review of the national children’s hospice grant. This review will help inform an updated children’s hospice grant allocation formula expected to be introduced for financial year 2017-18.