As part on ongoing calls for fairer and more sustainable statutory funding for hospices, we’ve made a joint commitment alongside other Humber and North Yorkshire adults hospices.
We’re outlining what we do and the role we play in our local health systems; as well as highlighting what we need to continue and grow the specialist care and support we each provide.
Together, we are part of the solution.
The hospice commitment
Humber and North Yorkshire independent adults hospices
What we do:
-Across our six hospices, we provide 19,400 occupied bed days and 43,332 hours of community palliative and end of life care yearly.
-We recognise the significant unmet need – the NHS stretch – and the increasing number of people requiring end of life care, creating a capacity issue for NHS partners.
-We can and want to step up specialist bereavement support across the Humber and North Yorkshire footprint, reducing waiting lists and relieving pressure on NHS mental health services.
-Our care provides a connected approach, ensuring patients, families and their carers can access our specialist support.
-The same six hospices provide 4,100 hours of specialist bereavement support every year.
-We can and want to utilise our bed occupancy and increase outreach work into the NHS to address this, reducing hospital admissions, improving hospital discharge and relieving pressure on GPs and district nurses.
-We are working collaboratively, seek further collaboration and are ready to step up to this significant challenge now.
What we need from our government funding:
-Improved sustainable funding for the future in excess of the current 20% funding.
-A key place within the planning and service modelling across all palliative, end of life care and bereavement support across our areas.
-Initial emergency funding to address the short-term funding crisis and avoid service reduction.
