St Nicholas Hospice Care - Independent charity serving West Suffolk and Thetford’s Post

Biggest investment into hospices in a generation 💙 The UK Government has formally announced a significant investment in hospice care in England. This includes: 🔵 £26 million of NHS England funding (formerly known as the Children’s Hospice Grant) for children’s hospices in 2025/26. 🔵 An additional £100 million in capital funding for all children’s and adults’ hospices in England this year and next, enabling improvements in facilities, IT systems, and outdoor spaces to enhance palliative and end of life care. Together for Short Lives have released a statement about the news 🌟 To find out more: https://lnkd.in/eYCzhV-R

St Andrew's Hospice welcomes the news that the Government has pledged £100m of additional support to the hospice sector. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced the capital funding will be delivered over two years, with an additional £26m towards continuing a grant for children and young people. St Andrew's Hospice Chief Executive Michelle Rollinson said: "This week's announcement was welcomed by our staff, volunteers, patients and families, as well as the wider community we serve. "It costs more than £6.5million each year to provide our services, of which just 18% is funded by the NHS, so we are pleased that the Government has recognised the financial strain that the sector has been under. "We look forward to finding out more about the terms of the funding in the new year." https://ow.ly/6JVf50UuRhh.

✨ Biggest Investment into Hospices in a Generation ✨ We welcome the UK Government’s announcement of a £100 million investment into hospices across the country – the largest commitment of its kind in decades. This crucial funding will help address the increasing demand for hospice care, ensuring that more families and individuals receive the compassionate support they need. At Richard House Children's Hospice, this announcement comes as a beacon of hope for the children’s hospice sector. As our CEO Paul Richards aptly said: “This is a well-timed announcement for Richard House and the Children’s Hospice Sector, and we look forward to hearing the details of how these much-needed funds will be allotted in the coming weeks.” Every day, hospices like ours work tirelessly to make a difference for children and their families. With this new investment, we are optimistic about what the future holds for improving access to care and sustainability across the sector. We’ll be closely following the developments on this funding and advocating for the children’s hospice community. Together, we can continue to make life better for the families who rely on us. 💗 #HospiceCare #ChildrensHospices #GovernmentFunding #CompassionInCare

As the new government gets to work, hospices are in crisis. Costs are rising, funding has stalled, demand for care is growing. Now some hospices are being forced to cut services. This can't continue. We are supporting Hospice UK's campaign to make sure MPs understand the scale of the challenge facing UK hospices. Use this link to write to your MP now, using this simple online template, so they can support their local hospice. https://buff.ly/46j2Cjs #RowansHospice #Hospice #Hospices #HospiceUK #FundingCrisis

The UK General Election is only a few weeks away, CEOs and senior leaders from the Cheshire & Merseyside Hospice Provider Collaborative are calling for: • Recognition that hospice care and support services have a significant impact on local communities and that demand for services is increasing • A funding review that supports sustainable provision of end-of-life and palliative care services within hospices, across community-settings and in people’s own homes • NHSE to support the ICBs to work more supportively with hospices to continue to deliver high-quality palliative care, as outlined in the 2022 Health & Social Care Act • A commitment to maintaining centrally distributed NHSE funding for children’s hospices We hope to see meaningful support for adult and children’s hospices in party manifestos. Claire House Children's Hospice East Cheshire Hospice Halton Haven Hospice St Luke's Cheshire Hospice Hospice of the Good Shepherd Marie Curie UK Queenscourt Hospice St. Joseph's Hospice St. Rocco's Hospices @willowbrookhospice @wirralhospice @woodlands-hospice-charitable-trust #HospiceCare #Hospice #ChildrensHospice #EndOfLife #Palliative

The UK General Election is only a few weeks away, CEOs and senior leaders from the Cheshire & Merseyside Hospice Provider Collaborative are calling for: ✅ Recognition that hospice care and support services have a significant impact on local communities and that demand for services is increasing. ✅ A funding review that supports sustainable provision of end-of-life and palliative care services within hospices, across community-settings and in people’s own homes. ✅ NHSE to support the ICBs to work more supportively with hospices to continue to deliver high-quality palliative care, as outlined in the 2022 Health & Social Care Act. ✅ A commitment to maintaining centrally distributed NHSE funding for children’s hospices.   We hope to see meaningful support for adult and children’s hospices in party manifestos. Claire House Children's Hospice East Cheshire Hospice Halton Haven Hospice Hospice of the Good Shepherd Marie Curie UK Queenscourt Hospice St. Joseph's Hospice Merseyside St Luke's Cheshire Hospice St. Rocco's Hospice Willowbrook Hospice Wirral Hospice St John's Woodlands Hospice #HospiceCare #Hospice #ChildrensHospice #EndOfLife #Palliative

We have asked our MPs to attend the debate on hospice funding tomorrow, 22 April 2024. Why? ➡️ Hospices provide vital person and family centred palliative and end of life care, yet our NHS funding covers barely 30% of our costs; ➡️The cost of service provision is rising. To meet the increasingly complex and multiple care needs of individuals in our care, we need to attract and retain skilled clinical staff. We need to be able to offer them decent pay rises so they can live a good life and afford to feed their families; ➡️ We pride ourselves on enabling people in our care to live life to the full, till the end. Why is dying well such a low unspoken priority in our society? The profile of our sector needs to rise. Please do take part in the debate 🙏🙌

The current climate has resulted in many UK hospices being forced to cut services, leading to fewer inpatient beds and community services being reduced. We need help and support available from local MPs across Lincolnshire and the new UK government. With hundreds of new MPs and a new government in place, it’s critical for St Barnabas Hospice and other UK hospices that the challenge is understood and positive change is supported. Please write to your MP now, using this simple 1 minute form to support your local community and show them how much hospice care matters. At St Barnabas, we have launched our Organisational Strategy for 2024 to 2029. This determines the direction of travel for our Hospice over the next five years, with strategic priorities that will help us sustain the level of care, support, and services that we provide to over 12,000 patients and their families across Lincolnshire, every year. Write to your MP: https://lnkd.in/e7JPAKMk Read our Organisational Strategy 2024 - 2029: https://lnkd.in/ekhNbtg6

How many more hospices are going to have to make cuts to services, before the government acts? Anyone going to take a guess?   It was so sad to hear yesterday that St Catherine's Hospice Sussex and Surrey becomes the sixth hospice in the last couple of months to make cuts to services.   St Catherine’s was my local hospice growing up in Crawley, and it is much loved for its outstanding specialised and personalised care. As an eight year old boy, I even remember fundraising for it, raising the grand total of £6.10!   Because it's not as if hospices and their local community don’t do their bit - Hospices rely on fundraising, as on average, only a 1/3 of their income comes from government. Which other intrinsic part of the health system is funded like this, with so little public funding?   And government is failing to even keep up with this - increases to hospice funding are trifling. While government agrees to a NHS pay increase 5.5% this year (which sets the market for nurses' salaries), it is not doing the same for hospice funding.   On top of that, any hope of additional funding, because hospices are caring for more patients, because of our ageing population, appears to be a pipe dream.   The amount of public funding for hospices and the system of how it’s calculated is broken. It needs fixing urgently.   And the frustrating thing is, it’s so short-sighted. These cuts will result in more NHS costs, as more people have to go to hospital (with less end of life care specialism).   This is when end of life care in the UK has been ranked as the best in the world, largely due to its hospice sector - something we've got right in the health sector.   Dame Cicely Saunders set up the world’s first modern hospice at St Christopher's in 1967. She was frustrated by a health system that focussed only on the “curable” rather than the dying. It appears we are in danger of making the same mistake now.   What does this say about our society if we don’t look after the dying and those close to them?