The children's hospice crisis that state funding can't solve
The families of young children with life-limiting conditions wouldn't put a price on the care they receive at hospices.
But providing that crucial support is getting harder and harder at hospices in England because of a staff crisis almost twice as severe as the NHS.
Political Correspondent Daniel Hewitt has been reporting on hospices for years after seeing how they eased his mother's pain before she died.
In this episode, he tells ITV News presenter Faye Barker what you need to know about the impact of this crisis, addressing the commons misconceptions of hospices and how they are funded and why increases to wages in the NHS causes them such problems.
You can watch Daniel's latest report on the crisis here: https://www.itv.com/news/2022-05-11/england-childrens-hospices-facing-staffing-crisis-almost-twice-as-severe-as-nhs
But providing that crucial support is getting harder and harder at hospices in England because of a staff crisis almost twice as severe as the NHS.
Political Correspondent Daniel Hewitt has been reporting on hospices for years after seeing how they eased his mother's pain before she died.
In this episode, he tells ITV News presenter Faye Barker what you need to know about the impact of this crisis, addressing the commons misconceptions of hospices and how they are funded and why increases to wages in the NHS causes them such problems.
You can watch Daniel's latest report on the crisis here: https://www.itv.com/news/2022-05-11/england-childrens-hospices-facing-staffing-crisis-almost-twice-as-severe-as-nhs
