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<p>Information on the number of hospices which have closed in England since 2010 is
not held.</p><p>There are currently around 223 registered independent hospices, and
a very small number of public hospices run internally by National Health Service trusts.
Around a quarter of these are children’s hospices. The vast majority of hospices are
primarily charity-funded but receive some statutory funding from clinical commissioning
groups (CCGs) and the Government for providing local services. CCGs are responsible
for determining the level of NHS-funded hospice care locally and they are responsible
for ensuring that the services they commission meet the needs of their local population.</p><p>As
part of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England committed to increase its investment in
children’s palliative care over the next five years by match funding CCGs who commit
to increase their investment in local children’s palliative and end of life care services.</p><p>Subject
to CCGs increasing investment, NHS England will match this by up to £7 million a year
by 2023/24. This increase is in addition to the Children’s Hospice Grant, which provides
an annual contribution of £11 million. NHS England is currently establishing financial
reporting systems to monitor the baseline investment of CCG in children’s palliative
and end of life care services. This will enable match funding payments to be made
to CCGs where the investments are increased above the investment baseline in the previous
year. As baselining will be ongoing through 2019/20, and therefore match funding will
not be available in this year, NHS England will be increasing the children’s hospice
grant to £12 million for this period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
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