Asked by: Neil Hudson (Conservative - Penrith and The Border)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps her Department has taken to support hospices.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
As part of the Health and Care Act 2022, the Government added palliative care services to the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission, which will ensure a more consistent national approach and support commissioners in prioritising palliative and end of life care, including from hospices.
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 services within the National Health Service. 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.
At a national level, NHS England supports children’s hospices through the Children and Young People’s hospice grant. It has confirmed that it will be renewing the grant for 2024/25, once again allocating £25 million of grant funding for children’s hospices using the same prevalence-based allocation approach as in 2022/23 and 2023/24.
The Government has provided additional funding to help deliver the one-off payments to eligible staff employed by non-NHS organisations, which employ their staff on dynamically linked Agenda for Change contracts. Organisations, such as hospices, were able to apply for the funding if they were able to show they had been negatively financially impacted by the pay deal, and that their staff are employed on dynamically linked Agenda for Change contracts.
Asked by: Karin Smyth (Labour - Bristol South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how she plans to distribute the £25 million committed to children’s hospices in 2024-25.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England currently supports palliative and end of life care for children and young people through the Children and Young People’s Hospice Grant. Last year, NHS England confirmed that it will be renewing the funding for 2024/25, once again allocating £25 million of funding for children’s hospices, using the same prevalence-based allocation approach as in 2022/23 and 2023/24. This prevalence-based approach ensures funding matches local need.
The distribution of the 2024/25 funding to children’s hospices will be via integrated care boards (ICBs), in line with the wider move to a devolved National Health Service, in which ICBs are best placed to meet the health and care needs of their local population.
Oct. 16 2009
Source Page: Tables showing details of grants awarded by the Department of Health from 2005/06 to 2009/10. 6 p.Found: Tables showing details of grants awarded by the Department of Health from 2005/06 to 2009/10. 6 p.
Mentions:
1: MacDonald, Gordon (SNP - Edinburgh Pentlands) and delivery of a new palliative and end-of-life care strategy. - Speech Link
2: Doris, Bob (SNP - Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn) and delivery of a new palliative and end-of-life care strategy. - Speech Link
3: 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
4: Minto, Jenni (SNP - Argyll and Bute) have pioneered palliative and end-of-life care. - Speech Link
Written Evidence Oct. 18 2023
Inquiry: PharmacyFound: Pharmacists play a vital role in the delivery of palliative and end-of-life care (PEoLC), which aims
Mentions:
1: Ewing, Annabelle (SNP - Cowdenbeath) children’s services, for providing vital palliative and end of life care and bereavement support to - Speech Link
2: Webber, Sue (Con - Lothian) towards the end of life. - Speech Link
3: McNair, Marie (SNP - Clydebank and Milngavie) end-of-life care strategy. - Speech Link
4: Minto, Jenni (SNP - Argyll and Bute) end-of-life care services, often under difficult circumstances. - Speech Link
5: Dowey, Sharon (Con - South Scotland) and end-of-life care. - Speech Link
6: Baillie, Jackie (Lab - Dumbarton) and end-of-life care. - Speech Link
Report Feb. 29 2024
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: 65 4 Palliative and End of Life Care 72 Palliative and End of Life Care (PEoLC) 72 International evidence
Mentions:
1: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) As the co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on hospice and end of life care, the opportunity - Speech Link
2: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) hospice and end-of-life care. - Speech Link
3: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) palliative and end-of-life care. - Speech Link
Apr. 15 2024
Source Page: Supporting safer visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaksFound: Supporting safer visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaks
Written Evidence Nov. 22 2023
Inquiry: Assisted dying/assisted suicideFound: It allows patients time, and choices of how to live, and live well, in their last months, weeks,