Children's hospices 'to shut if NHS does not increase funding'

Children's hospices 'to shut if NHS does not increase funding' Children's hospices in England will be forced to cut services or shut unless the NHS increases its funding, a charity has warned.

Together for Short Lives, which helps terminally ill children, highlighted a "dangerous cocktail" of higher costs and a drop in state funding.

Its report examined funding for 27 of the 34 children's hospices in England.

But NHS England said funding for children's end-of-life care was "going up every year". BBC News

See also:

• Make good your promise to properly fund children’s hospices, charity tells NHS England boss as cuts hit care for seriously ill children Together for Short Lives