Linder Foundation Hospice Grants 2023 - End of Life Care in Prisons

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Hospice UK’s report, Dying Behind Bars, is the result of in-depth analysis of the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman’s Fatal Incident reports (reports of investigations into deaths in prisons in England) as well as close engagement with hospice services and other health and social care providers who support people in prison at the end of life. This report is England-focused but we want to improve end of life care in prisons across the UK so this programme welcomes submissions from all UK hospices. Among the challenges this report identified were the inappropriate use of restraints, delayed or absent consideration of compassionate release, and care that is inequivalent to that received in the community.

A prison sentence is the deprivation of an individual’s liberties, it is not a sentence to poor health and social care.

 

Information and Criteria

What is the programme?

The Linder Foundation grants programme will build on the first round of grants awarded in March 2023.

Grants

Grants of up to £15,000 are available to support projects running over a period of 12 months.

Total available funding in this grant round is £80,000. We expect to award between five and seven grants in this round.

Deadline

The deadline for applications is 17:00 on Monday, 26 February 2024. Applicants will be informed whether or not they have been successful at the end of March 2024.

Eligibility

Only independent hospices that are members of Hospice UK incl, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are eligible to apply.

The proposed work

Examples of work that could be funded include:

  • Developing and testing new approaches, such as training programmes focused on the needs of people at end of life for clinical and non-clinical prison staff
  • Funding a new post to coordinate engagement/build relationships with and explore ways to support and collaborate with local prisons and specialist organisations supporting prison health and care services for palliative end of life or bereaved people in custody. 
  • Rolling out of practice models already tested and indicating positive outcomes, in some hospices, such as on-demand end of life care advice to prisons, delivering direct clinical care and bereavement support in prison and providing training to prison staff.
  • Setting up (or enabling access to) an Advice Line for prison staff to access support and advice relating to palliative and end of life care and bereavement.
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How to apply

Please select the below Apply Now button and select Start an Application.

For more details on this programme, please read:

- Application guidance and criteria

- Outline of application questions  

 

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Acknowledgement

Grant holders are required to acknowledge the Linder Foundation and Hospice UK in any information that is circulated about the project. This includes e.g. conference presentations, reports, publications and articles that arise from the work. This grant programme has been made possible by the Linder Foundation. 

The Linder Foundation

The Linder Foundation would like to emphasise that, due of the availability of this funding programme, they will not consider any direct applications from hospices or hospice led projects based in the UK.

Hospice UK

Hospice UK is the national charity for hospice and end of life care. We work to ensure everyone affected by death, dying and grief gets the care and support they need, when they need it.

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