Hospices in the red after NHS funding cuts

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 24 July 2007

Almost a third of charitable hospices are currently in deficit after a fall in NHS funding, according to new figures released by Help the Hospices.

The charity’s analysis of the accounts of 186 of the UK’s 194 charitable hospices for the period between 2004 and 2006 shows that the proportion of English adult hospices’ expenditure met by the NHS has dropped from 34 per cent in 2004 to 32 per cent in 2006, leaving 28...

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