Mountbatten’s Chief Executive, Nigel Hartley, has this morning (Thursday) issued a statement regarding government funding for hospices, following the release of the attached report.
The Mountbatten Group comprises Mountbatten Isle of Wight and Mountbatten Hampshire, run as separate charities supported by the communities they are placed in.
The annual cost to provide Mountbatten’s services across the group is £21 million - £10.5million each. Only a third of Mountbatten’s funding comes from the NHS. The rest comes from fundraised income.
Mountbatten is currently supporting around 3,500 people across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (1,500 Hampshire and 2,000 Isle of Wight).
A further 40% growth is anticipated over the coming years, mainly due to the increasing older population.
Nigel Hartley MBE said:
“Another critical report from the APPG on Hospice and a Palliative Care - but who is listening and who is being held accountable?
“I’ve work in hospices for over 35 years and I have never experienced such a critical and desperate time with regard to hospice funding from the NHS.
“Mountbatten has been fortunate to have retained a proper contract with the local NHS for a number of years, receiving around a third of our funding from them and performing and reporting accordingly.
“Everything we do has been in agreement with local NHS commissioners.
"Our NHS funding will be down by £800,000 in April this year due to no uplift, so the amount will remain flat (uplifts over the last years have never matched the cost of staff pay awards or cost of living) with other potential cuts.
“If something doesn’t change soon, we will be saying goodbye to our beloved hospice movement and the growing number of people who so desperately need our care will be left and ignored as they were at the birth of the NHS in the 1940s."
If you'd like to donate or find out more, you can do so on the Mountbatten website.
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