NHS: Charitable Donations

(asked on 12th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to provide facilities for citizens to bequest charitable donations to NHS hospital charities.


Answered by
Lord O'Shaughnessy Portrait
Lord O'Shaughnessy
This question was answered on 20th December 2017

The Government has no plans to provide patients with the costs of their treatment in order to encourage charitable donations.

There are no plans to establish a new National Health Service hospital charity. There are currently 253 NHS charities in England and Wales, which collectively hold £2.8 billion in assets and each provide public donation facilities. The public already give very generously to these with over £410 million income generated each year.

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