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'Crucial Services' at risk due to a lack of government funding. #Togetherforshortlives warns that children's hospices face significant financial challenges due to rising costs and insufficient long-term funding, as detailed in their report "Short Lives Can’t Wait: Children’s Hospice Funding in 2024." The report highlights a 12% increase in charitable expenditure, soaring energy and staffing costs, and a projected total deficit exceeding £30 million in the coming year, risking substantial cuts to vital services. This situation directly impacts organisations like Jessie May, showing the need for funding to continue, so that we can provide crucial support to children with a life limiting condition and their families. Support Jessie May today - https://lnkd.in/eC2XNQjs https://lnkd.in/eFzJtppx

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This week, Hospice UK published data obtained via FOI requests that showed a real-time cut in Government funding to the UK's charitable hospice sector of £47m over two years. Every hospice understands that their Integrated Care Boards face funding challenges of their own, but it is neither fair nor realistic for those who have a statutory duty to provide end-of-life services to local populations to expect donors to hospices or customers in our shops to make up the rise in costs of delivering our essential services. With our ageing population and medical advances, greater numbers of adults and children will need the services provided by their local hospice. It is time for fairer and more intelligent funding policy and practice. https://lnkd.in/ex4t_-cp

Yesterday Hospice UK launched its latest survey findings - shockingly there's an estimated collective deficit of £77k million for the 2023-24 financial year because of rising expenditure. Tim Porter the CEO of Hospice UK says "These are the worst financial results for the hospice sector in around 20 years. Many hospices are spending more on their care than they receive in income. This is unsustainable and extremely worrying." Having just completed a CEO recruitment campaign for HospiceCare North Northumberland I've learnt more about the current challenges facing palliative care. Despite their indispensable service to communities, hospices struggle to secure adequate funding. Adult hospices receive only a third of their funding from the state, while children's hospices receive even less. Consequently, the bulk of essential hospice services rely heavily on fundraising efforts and charitable donations. Porter emphasizes the imperative of devising a new funding model to sustain hospice care in the face of mounting demand, particularly in economically challenged areas. The aging population ensures that the need for end-of-life care will only escalate, underscoring the importance of fully integrating and fairly funding hospices as indispensable partners in the healthcare continuum. #hospice #charity #executivesearch #hospiceceo

I often tell people this - usually after they have expressed surprise that hospices like the ones where I worked have professional fundraising departments at all - and it is always met with shock. It makes services precarious for hospices in large cities but many of these do at least have reasonably affluent and connected communities. For hospices serving communities that are already struggling to support any number of other needs with very little, what does it mean for that 70% of funding? The bottom line is that centralised funding is vital to support parity of services across the UK - not only in end of life care but in any number of services needed to make our systems function. If 70% of what is available to you is linked to the affluence of your community, how can we claim we have public access?

The following statements are exactly why we as parents are campaigning for change….. we must get better services from the government for children under hospice care. Please spare a moment and sign this open letter that will be delivered to Goverment, the more signatures the more impactful it will be. https://lnkd.in/d4VNErk9 ✍🏻Julia’s House only gets 8% of their income from the State, one of the lowest among hospices in the whole country, leaving them almost totally reliant on donations and facing a £1.5m deficit this year. ✍🏻Of that 8%, less than half is from commissioning by the NHS in Dorset and none is from commissioning by the NHS in Wiltshire. ✍🏻Most of the 8% was due to be from the national Children’s Hospice Grant but this has just been devolved to local commissioners. The charity is now having to track down who has this money and if it will still reach them. They can’t afford to lose it. ✍🏻24/7 end of life care at home is not available through the NHS in Wiltshire and only partially available in Dorset, despite being required by the NICE Gold Standards Framework. I don’t think this is acceptable. ✍🏻The national body for children’s palliative care, Together for Short Lives, submitted Freedom of Information requests to all local Health & Social Care boards to ask how much they spent on hospice services per child in the 2022/23 year. The answers varied UK-wide from £511 per child to £28. In Wiltshire (BaNES Swindon & Wiltshire ICS) it was £144.84 (none of it to Julia’s House for care in Wiltshire). In Dorset it was £99.96. This is the very definition of a postcode lottery of local services. So you can see that devolved commissioning of hospices simply isn’t working and I am deeply worried for my child and our families. #palliativecare #childrenshospice #togetherforshortlives #government

In accordance with the Jessie May Children's Hospice 5-year plan, we have commissioned an external evaluation by the specialist research company Apteligen. The goal is to evaluate our impact - to understand better how to grow and reach more families. Read the full article below. https://lnkd.in/eGnnmdAz #charitytoday #jessiemay

All hospice organizations must meet the same Medicare minimum requirements, but their operations and care delivery can differ significantly. In New York State, our two existing for-profit hospices have a track record of providing exceptional care. However, the state's Certificate of Need (CON) has protected us from the fraud and abuse being observed in other states that have been less cautious in granting licenses to end-of-life care providers. This serves as a warning for policymakers to exercise discretion in regulating hospice care providers and to be mindful when reforming CON methodology. #HospiceCare #EndOfLifeCare #HealthcareRegulation

Do you have a people promise? It might address: ▶ How you recruit and retain the best people. ▶ How you look after your people from a well-being point of view. ▶ How you look after your people from a learning and development point of view. ▶ How you develop advocacy of your mission within your people. ▶ What tools and support are needed to help your people achieve your charity's goals. See what Forget Me Not Children's Hospice have included in their people promise. #people #charities #thirdsector #charityleader #charity