Patients and Families
Click here to find out more about your local children’s hospice service and how you can support the campaign to get greater parity of funding for children’s hospices with adult hospices.
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Health Professionals
Better delivery of care? Click here to find out more about the Department of Health’s funding system for palliative care and how you and your PCT can support local hospices as they move beyond bricks and mortar and provide better care for patients and their families.
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Hospices
Are you getting your money’s worth? Click here to find out about the Department of Health’s funding system for palliative care services and how your hospice can access these funds. Join our campaign for greater parity of funding with adult hospices
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Welcome to the Fair Play for Children's Hospice Website
Hospices are more than just bricks and mortar; they provide a multitude of services for a life limited child and their family stretching from respite care through to adventure holidays. The hospice movement has earned admiration, government endorsement and devoted support for its work with patients and their families who require palliative care for life limiting illnesses. Hospices have enriched the lives millions of people and will be a beacon to millions more.
Children’s hospices need funding though. The issues surrounding funding for children’s hospices are complex and challenging and at Fair Play we maintain that there should be greater parity of statutory funding (funding provided by government) with adult hospices. Fair Play is concerned that there are still funding inconsistencies, no guarantees on funding provision and no system yet devised that will achieve these goals. Whilst these remain, long-term, increased, sustainable and consistent funding by statutory authorities is no closer to being achieved.
Good sentiments are not enough for Fair Play. We want actions, commitments and guarantees!
It is our vision that this website will help allow hospices to do what they do best and support life-limited children and their families with hospice services which go beyond bricks and mortar; whilst Fair Play for Children’s Hospices prods and pokes the Government to do the right thing and guarantee consistent, long-term and increased funding. We want parity of statutory funding with adult hospices now and guaranteed for the future. This website will provide all of the information a parent, carer, hospice or NHS representative will need to understand the palliative care service options and more importantly, how to access them.
If you would like to support our campaign for greater funding parity, click here and send a letter a letter to your local MP
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Case Studies
Hospices are fundamental to the delivery of palliative care services to children, young people and their families.
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Hospice Finder
Use this map to find the location of your local hospice and their NHS primary care trust (PCT).
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