Briefings and consultations

To mark Care Home Week in Scotland, this briefing describes the work Scottish hospices do with care homes to widen access to quality end of life care and makes a number of recommendations for expanding these partnerships.

Over the coming year hospices will need to deal with a range of changes to the way they manage personal data and direct communications. One of these is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which replaces the Data Protection Act.

A guide for commissioners and providers to improve pain management for dying people at home

Guide to what charities can and cannot do during an election campaign.

Ahead of the review into Scotland’s national health and social care integration indicators, Hospice UK, Marie Curie and Sue Ryder propose that anticipatory care planning be adopted as an indicator for improving and widening access to end of life care.

This briefing includes a summary of the Fundraising Regulator’s final proposals for the establishment of a Fundraising Preference Service (FPS) for charities in England and Wales; the impact of the hospice movement in influencing policy; the remaining areas of concerns; and an important section on what the FPS means for you.

In this report we set out the vital contribution that hospices in the UK make to supporting people with terminal and life-shortening conditions and explore the scope, scale and opportunities for hospice care in the UK in 2016.

Response from Hospices Cymru to the Parliamentary Review of Health and Social care in Wales, commissioned by the Welsh Government to develop recommendations for the future delivery of health and social care services.

Our submission to the Fundraising Regulator's discussion paper on proposals for a Fundraising Preference Service (FPS).

Our response to the NICE call for evidence for the development of the guideline on end of life care for adults in the last year of life.

Our submission to the Select Committee on Charities' call for evidence regarding issues related to sustaining the charity sector.

A joint response from Hospice UK and the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC) to the Department of Health's call for evidence to inform their new Carers Strategy.

Our submission to the new Fundraising Regulator's discussion paper on the arrangements for its funding through a registration and levy system.

Our response to NCVO's controversial discussion paper on a ‘fundraising preference service’ to apply to charities.

Our response to the NHS England discussion paper on the NHS Standard Contract for 2016/17.

Our response to the Nursing Associate Consultation, part of the Directorate of Education and Quality at Health Education England, regarding proposals to increase the capacity and capability of the registered nursing workforce to meet the challenges of increasingly complex demand.