Racheal Reeves REALLY needs to take in to account the impact the NI hike is going to have on hospices

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Was shocked to learn that only 20% of funding comes from government the rest is donated by the public. This is disgraceful

Now with the NI hikes it’s going to cost one of the largest hospices in the U.K. £385,000 extra a year. This is a hospice not a massive business. Jobs are going to be lost meaning people who are dying and at the end of their life are not going to get the care they need - this included children. This is going to affect all hospices. Im so shocked the NHS do not fund these places. People are literally going here to die.

I honestly despair.

She’s already said she won’t reverse their decision
loads of different charities are affected and it will have an impact on services
it’s brutal

and yes hospices rely on fundraising for their services
like air ambulances
like carers services
and loads of other health and medical causes as well as all the brilliant grass roots charities supporting people around the UK

it’s a travesty

I can't believe we are bringing in assisted dying without even trying the idea of funding hospices first.

Typical Labour government, climbing the ladder then pulling it up behind them.

Taking money from hospices to line their own pocket. There will be much less donations from the public, too, with all the tax rises in the budget.

Having watched some of the money Marie curie wasted - they can try turning a few lights off!!
literally office lights on a fancy system that meant the whole building lit up at night just for someone to walk through the edge to the ward!!

drove me mad!!!

This - a million times!!

Agree.

It's disgusting.

Agree - and it's not only hospices but the whole care sector from nurseries to nursing homes. A sector that is already struggling. This is not going to go well for vulnerable children & adults or Labour.

I’m really shocked that hospices are not fully funded. It’s shameful. But to not give these charities exemption is sickening and almost coincidental with the assisted death being agreed on.

Its sickening

One of my good friends works for a children’s hospice. Until people understand what these changes have done to hospices - they should be quiet. All the rhetoric about business and wealth aside - how anyone can justify this move is sickening. It honestly is.

Hospices are stuck needing the autonomy that being independent charities brings them (can spend money on the added extras that are nice and also don’t get their cash sucked away to give to the acute services in hospital everytime the hospitals get in more debt) but also then on a constant cycle of needing to fund raise millions every year.

They have had a bad run of Covid affecting donations then their NHS uplift was less than expected and now this. Many are reducing bed capacity and staff including medical and nursing. I expect a number will close in the next year.

Palliative care was already only available to far too few and this will make it even less available when patients and families need good robust end of life care and support to live with a terminal illness both at home and in a hospice.

I think it’s frightening that we are advancing assisted dying legislation when palliative care access is reducing.

Sadly, she has no shits to give.

I can't believe we are bringing in assisted dying without even trying the idea of funding hospices first.

its the cheaper option

And it absolves responsibility. Substandard care? It's on you for not choosing assisted dying.

I was reading an article on underprescribed pain medication in EOL care - and all the comments were gunning for assisted dying. OK - but maybe we could also focus on adequately prescribing medication?

I didn't know this was going to affect hospices. They are already struggling financially.

As someone who has had cancer this year I find this frightening.

That could be the future we are looking at, depressingly:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j1z14p57po