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<p>As part of the Health and Care Act 2022, the Government added palliative care services
to the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission, which will
ensure a more consistent national approach and support commissioners in prioritising
palliative and end of life care, including from hospices.</p><p>The majority of palliative
and end of life care is provided by NHS staff and services. However, we also recognise
the vital part that voluntary sector organisations, including hospices, play in providing
support to people at end of life and their families. Most hospices are charitable,
independent organisations which receive some statutory funding for providing services
within the National Health Service. The amount of funding hospices receive is dependent
on many factors, including what other statutory services are available within the
ICB footprint. Charitable hospices provide a range of services which go beyond that
which statutory services are legally required to provide. Consequently, the funding
arrangements reflect this.</p><p>At a national level, NHS England supports children’s
hospices through the Children and Young People’s hospice grant. It has confirmed that
it will be renewing the grant for 2024/25, once again allocating £25 million of grant
funding for children’s hospices using the same prevalence-based allocation approach
as in 2022/23 and 2023/24.</p><p>The Government has provided additional funding to
help deliver the one-off payments to eligible staff employed by non-NHS organisations,
which employ their staff on dynamically linked Agenda for Change contracts. Organisations,
such as hospices, were able to apply for the funding if they were able to show they
had been negatively financially impacted by the pay deal, and that their staff are
employed on dynamically linked Agenda for Change contracts.</p>
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