Hospices: Children
(asked on 24th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will increase the annual level of ringfenced funding that children’s hospices receive from NHS England to £25 million to reflect the changing number of seriously ill children whom they are caring for.
This question was answered on 29th October 2018
The Children’s Hospice Grant is awarded annually and administered by NHS England. It is a contribution towards the operating costs of the hospices, not core funding for NHS services, for which the statutory responsibility resides with local commissioners. In 2018/19 £11 million has been provided to children’s hospices through the Grant.