Jan. 04 2024
Source Page: Letter dated 21/12/2023 from Lord Markham to Lords regarding questions raised during the Oral Question on Children’s Hospices Funding: monitoring of palliative care services and integration of hospice services with other paediatric services, a match-funding system for hospices. 1p.Found: Lords regarding questions raised during the Oral Question on Children’s Hospices Funding: monitoring of palliative
Mentions:
1: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) on integrated care boards to urgently address the funding for hospice-provided palliative care in their - Speech Link
2: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) on integrated care boards to urgently address the funding for hospice-provided palliative care in their - Speech Link
3: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) commission palliative and end of life care, ICB commissioning of hospice services is currently not fit - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Ireland Hospice provides specialist palliative care for more than 4,000 infants, children and adults - Speech Link
5: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) , was a signal moment when the hospice movement came of age, and end of life and palliative care was - Speech Link
6: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) life and palliative care is provided by hospices. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sweeney, Paul (Lab - Glasgow) Curie goes beyond palliative and end-of-life care. - Speech Link
2: McArthur, Liam (LD - Orkney Islands) care and hospice-at-home care. - Speech Link
3: Minto, Jenni (SNP - Argyll and Bute) social care services and teams that deliver palliative and end-of-life care. - Speech Link
Found: care provision • To increase awareness and raise the profile of palliative care • To put palliative
Found: Dr Leonie Herx, Palliative care physician, Associate Professor and Divis ion Head of Palliative Medicine
Found: Annual Return 2021 22 Palliative Care Cross Party Group
Mentions:
1: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) , thousands of people receive palliative and end of life care. - Speech Link
2: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) As part of the Health and Care Act 2022, palliative care services were specifically added to the list - Speech Link
3: Simon Jupp (Con - East Devon) palliative and end of life care. - Speech Link
Correspondence May. 22 2024
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: Hospice UK on follow up from Hospice Funding oral evidence session 15.05.24 Correspondence
Mentions:
1: Doris, Bob (SNP - Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn) provision in relation to palliative and end-of-life care? - Speech Link
2: Mochan, Carol (Lab - South Scotland) that really struck me about the provision of end-of-life care and the provision of hospice care in 2023 - Speech Link
3: Macpherson, Ben (SNP - Edinburgh Northern and Leith) enhancing palliative care and making the case for palliative care. - Speech Link
4: Minto, Jenni (SNP - Argyll and Bute) have pioneered palliative and end-of-life care. - Speech Link
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with (a) clinicians, (b) hospice leaders and (c) academics on future funding requirements for hospice and end of life care.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for determining the level of locally available, National Health Service funded palliative and end of life care, including hospice care. ICBs are responsible for ensuring that the services they commission meet the needs of their local population.
The majority of palliative and end of life care is provided by NHS staff and services. However, we also recognise the vital part that voluntary sector organisations, including hospices, play in providing support to people at end of life, and their families. Most hospices are charitable, independent organisations which receive some statutory funding for providing NHS services. The amount of funding hospices receive is dependent on many factors, including what other statutory services are available within the ICB footprint. Charitable hospices provide a range of services which go beyond that which statutory services are legally required to provide. Consequently, the funding arrangements reflect this.
In July 2022, NHS England published statutory guidance and service specifications for commissioners on palliative and end of life care, setting out the considerations for ICBs to meet their legal duties, and making clear reference to the importance of access to services.
The Department and NHS England, alongside key partners, will continue to proactively engage with our stakeholders, including the voluntary sector and independent hospices, on an ongoing basis, in order to understand the issues they face, including that of future funding pressures. The Department is in ongoing discussions with NHS England, including its National Clinical Director, about the oversight and accountability of National Health Service palliative and end of life care commissioning.
From April 2024, NHS England will include palliative and end of life care in the list of topics for its regular performance discussions between national and regional leads. These national meetings will provide an additional mechanism for supporting ICBs in continuing to improve palliative and end of life care for their local population.
NHS England has commissioned the development of a palliative and end of life care dashboard, which brings together relevant local data in one place. The dashboard helps commissioners understand the palliative and end of life care needs of those in their local population, enabling ICBs to put plans in place to address and track the improvement of health inequalities. Additionally, the National Institute for Health and Care Research has established a new Policy Research Unit to build an evidence base on palliative and end of life care, with a specific focus on inequalities.