In response to today's Budget announcement, Toby Porter, CEO of Hospice UK says:
Hospices across the country are facing severe financial challenges and making tough decisions about the future of their services. Yet today’s budget has been a missed opportunity to provide support to hospices so they can continue to be there for people who are dying.
Hospices support more than 300,000 people every year and they’re vital partners to the wider health and care system, taking pressure off NHS services. They only receive a small chunk of their funding from the state and rely on charitable donations to cover the remaining cost of their services. Amidst sharply increasing costs, this funding model is simply unsustainable.
We need government to urgently review how hospices are funded to ensure they get the money they need to continue their vital work.
