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<p>Children’s hospices receive some statutory funding from clinical commissioning
groups (CCGs) and the Government for providing local services. The amount of funding
is locally determined, and NHS England does not centrally collect data on this.</p><p>Children’s
hospices receive around 15% from National Health Service sources. NHS England manages
the Children’s Hospice Grant, which is awarded and administered annually. The grant
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.</p><p>The
following table shows the amount awarded under the Children’s Hospice Grant in the
past five years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Grant amount
awarded</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£11,000,000.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£11,000,000.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£11,000,000.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£11,000,000.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£12,000,000,00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As set out in the NHS Long
Term Plan, NHS England committed to increase its contribution to 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; including children’s
hospices. 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 baseline contribution of £11 million. NHS England
estimates that full match funding should more than double the additional NHS support
from £11 million to a combined total of £25 million a year by 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>NHS
England is currently establishing financial reporting systems to monitor the baseline
investment of CCGs 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>Regarding adult hospices, these receive approximately 30% of their overall
funding from NHS sources.</p><p> </p>
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