Apr. 05 2024
Source Page: Domestic consumers with non-domestic energy supply contracts: call for evidenceFound: as contracts which are typically used to serve non-residential properties, such as businesses or charities
Dec. 11 2023
Source Page: Government response to the consultation on visiting in care homes, hospitals and hospices. CP983. [includes larger print and print friendly versions]Found: Government response to the consultation on visiting in care homes, hospitals and hospices. CP983.
Dec. 11 2023
Source Page: Government response to the consultation on visiting in care homes, hospitals and hospices. CP983. [includes larger print and print friendly versions]Found: Government response to the consultation on visiting in care homes, hospitals and hospices. CP983.
Mentions:
1: Paul Holmes (CON - Eastleigh) She is right that hospices have not been included in the energy support given to other charities, even - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) , with potential loss of hospice beds and services.”She went on:“Your local hospices”—our hospices—“are - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Some Members have told very personal stories.I put on the record my thanks to all the charities, groups - Speech Link
Asked by: Paul Girvan (Democratic Unionist Party - South Antrim)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) adult’s and (b) children’s hospices with the cost of living.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Palliative and end of life care, including hospice care, is commissioned locally by integrated care boards (ICBs) in response to the needs of their local population. Charities, including hospices, have already benefitted from the Energy Bill Relief Scheme which ended on 31 March 2023, and provided £7 billion of support. Eligible organisations, including hospices, will continue to get baseline discount support on gas and electricity bills under the Energy Bills Discount Scheme from 1 April 2023 until 31 March 2024.
At a national level, NHS England has released £1.5 billion additional funding to ICBs to provide support for inflation, with ICBs deciding how best to distribute this funding within their systems, including to palliative and end of life care providers such as hospices.
Additionally, NHS England has invested £25 million in the Children and Young People hospice grant in the financial year 2023/24 to provide care closer to home for those seriously ill as and when they need it.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that hospices are able to continue to support patients following recent increases in the cost of living.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government recognises the importance of palliative and end of life care for patients and those important to them. Palliative and end of life care, including hospice care, is commissioned locally by integrated care boards (ICBs) in response to the needs of their local population. Any assessment would, therefore, be made at a local level.
Charities, including hospices, have already benefitted from the Energy Bill Relief Scheme which ended on 31 March and provided £7 billion of support. Eligible organisations, including hospices, will continue to get baseline discount support on gas and electricity bills under the Energy Bills Discount Scheme from 1 April 2023 until 31 March 2024.
At a national level, NHS England has released £1.5 billion additional funding to ICBs to provide support for inflation, with ICBs deciding how best to distribute this funding within their systems, including to palliative and end of life care providers such as hospices.
Most hospices are independent, charitable organisations that remain free to set salary rates along with other terms and conditions at a level that reflects the skills and experience of their staff.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of (a) the cost of living crisis and (b) increasing staffing costs on the sustainability of hospice services.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government recognises the importance of palliative and end of life care for patients and those important to them. Palliative and end of life care, including hospice care, is commissioned locally by integrated care boards (ICBs) in response to the needs of their local population. Any assessment would, therefore, be made at a local level.
Charities, including hospices, have already benefitted from the Energy Bill Relief Scheme which ended on 31 March and provided £7 billion of support. Eligible organisations, including hospices, will continue to get baseline discount support on gas and electricity bills under the Energy Bills Discount Scheme from 1 April 2023 until 31 March 2024.
At a national level, NHS England has released £1.5 billion additional funding to ICBs to provide support for inflation, with ICBs deciding how best to distribute this funding within their systems, including to palliative and end of life care providers such as hospices.
Most hospices are independent, charitable organisations that remain free to set salary rates along with other terms and conditions at a level that reflects the skills and experience of their staff.
Jun. 14 2024
Source Page: The King's Birthday Honours List 2024Found: His office has donated over £4.4million to UK charities to date.DAME AND KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE ORDER
Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) that intervention, because two thirds of palliative care in the United Kingdom is actually funded by charities - Speech Link
2: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) Last Monday, there was an engaging Backbench Business debate in the House on funding for hospices; in - Speech Link
3: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) in other jurisdictions that have implemented such a law change.I want to address palliative care and hospices - Speech Link
Dec. 15 2023
Source Page: VAT refunds for constructing a new charity buildingFound: qualifying buildings, depending on the circumstances, include: places of worship offices used by charities