Briefings and consultations

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.

Hospice care in Scotland is provided by 16 charitable hospices across the country, all of which are charities that rely on the generous support of the local communities that they serve. In this report, we set out the vital contribution that hospices in Scotland make, and the opportunities to build the right hospice care for the next 50 years.

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.

Our response to the Department of Health’s consultation on proposals to extend charging for certain overseas visitors and migrants who use NHS services, including non-NHS providers in receipt of NHS funding.