National Survey of the Pressures on NHS Funding for Specialist Palliative Care

The National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC) was invited by the National Partnership Group for Palliative Care (NPG) to build a picture of pressures on funding specialist palliative care services for the year 2006/07. This was to go beyond the monitoring of the extra £50 million allocation in order to identify any underlying problems with core funding, both for NHS services and for services in the voluntary sector.

An initial survey was undertaken early in 2006 but this revealed that a large proportion of services had not at that time been able to reach a final settlement. It was therefore agreed to undertake a second survey well into the financial year in order to be able to draw firmer conclusions about funding pressures. Accordingly, a further survey was carried out in August/September.

Thankyou to all those that completed the survey. The results are now published. Please click on the links below to download the results as well as the press release.

Funding Survey Results  (159KB)

Funding Survey Press Release  (120KB)