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	date	04/11/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Palliative Care: Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what additional funding they plan to allocate to (1)hospice, and (2) palliative, care services in the next five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
	uin	HL9989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>The Department recognises that the hospice sector has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and that subsequent social distancing measures have affected some aspects of community fundraising. We regularly assess the effect of the COVID-19 outbreak on the hospice sector and through NHS England and NHS Improvement are in regular discussions with stakeholders in the sector about the challenges they face. A range of steps have been taken to support hospices.</p><p>We have provided over £150 million in additional funding to the hospice sector to date during the pandemic. Alongside this, hospices have benefited from the financial support offered by Her Majesty’s Treasury to all charities, such as paying no business rates for their shops next year and applying for a Business Interruption Loan.</p><p>We continue to keep funding for hospices under review.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell grouped question UIN HL9991 HL9992 question first answered 15/01/2021 13:15:46 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1659254

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	date	07/09/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Community Health Services: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce backlogs in community child health services.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
	uin	HL9989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>We are committed to reducing community health care waiting lists for children and young people. That is why the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan sets commitments to grow the community workforce, with increases in training places for district nurses, health visitors, school nurses and allied health professionals, and a renewed focus on retaining existing staff.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 19/09/2023 13:20:34 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron