Hospice Joins Colleagues Across the Country for Hospice UK Day of Action
Today, as Hospice UK and hospice colleagues visit Westminster to highlight the reality of the hospice funding crisis, we’re standing in solidarity to help ensure hospice care continues for years to come.
Please see below or watch the following video, for our hospice statement in support of Hospice UK’s Day of Action today.
Dear Prime Minister,
In my role as Chief Executive Officer at St Elizabeth Hospice, I am privileged to see every day the difference hospice care makes to patients and their families.
As well as vital specialist clinical support, hospice care is about compassion, helping people through both physical and emotional challenges.
Every day, hospice colleagues across the country do remarkable work, supporting families to create lasting memories and helping them to cherish precious remaining moments with their loved ones.
The hospice sector gives patients dignity and choice when it is needed the most and we are determined to ensure it continues for many years to come.
That is why today, St Elizabeth Hospice stands with Hospice UK and colleagues across the country to call for a fair funding model, so this incredible care can continue free from financial pressure.
The recent Public Accounts Committee Report highlights the growing pressure on UK hospices, as demand for end-of-life care continues to rise.
At St Elizabeth Hospice, we are seeing increasing need for our services across East & Mid Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney, alongside rising delivery costs.
Each year, it costs over £12 million to provide care to more than 4,000 patients and their families, and we remain heavily reliant on the ongoing generosity of our local community.
Despite these challenges, we are committed to providing high-quality, compassionate care wherever and whenever it is needed.
We welcome plans for a Modern Service Framework for palliative and end-of-life care and stand prepared to help shape and deliver this.
However, many hospices cannot wait for change. While we are not in immediate danger of reducing services, others are already facing impossible decisions.
Urgent action is needed now to ensure fair, consistent funding across the hospice sector, so that everyone, regardless of where they live, can access the care they deserve at the end of life.
That’s why St Elizabeth Hospice stands in solidarity with hospices across the UK to call on the government to commit to sustainable hospice funding today.
Judi Newman
Chief Executive Officer
St Elizabeth Hospice
Please click here or the below button to read more on Hospices UK’s four-point plan for fair hospice funding.
