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Integrated care boards (ICBs) in some parts of England are giving hospices 20 times as much funding as those in others, showing the crucial need for a new funding model, hospice bosses have told MPs.
Giving evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee on 23 April, Toby Porter, chief executive of Hospice UK, said the devolved distribution of healthcare resourcing through ICBs “is not working for the hospice sector, and it’s not working for palliative care in general.”
The session on hospice finances follows a report from the committee in February on assisted dying which highlighted the “patchy” provision of end-of-life services in the UK. The report called for universal coverage, including hospice care at home, with more specialists in palliative care and end-of-life pain relief.1
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