{"id":430565,"date":"2025-09-17T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/430565\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:43:10","slug":"daughter-criticises-birmingham-hospitals-end-of-life-cancer-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/430565\/","title":{"rendered":"Daughter criticises Birmingham hospital&#8217;s end-of-life cancer care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Coogan went on to praise Birmingham Hospice, where her dad spent two weeks in April and said she would like to see better funding for hospices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is such a shame that more funding cannot be put into hospices where the nurses are dedicated and trained and it is their speciality to deal with end of life,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham Hospice had to reduce their number of beds in 2024 due to rising costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Bytheway, their chief executive, said they were seeing rising demand for their care as people lived longer with &#8220;increasingly complex health conditions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sustainable, long-term government funding remains essential to maintaining and growing access to these vital services,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government was working to make sure palliative and end-of-life care was sustainable, a spokesperson for the Department of Health said<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are also investing an extra \u00a3100m to improve hospice facilities &#8211; which is the biggest investment in hospices in a generation and in addition NHS England is providing \u00a326m for children and young people&#8217;s hospices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham Hospice had received \u00a3345,224 from the first part of the funding and \u00a31,113,392 from the second, they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Coogan went on to praise Birmingham Hospice, where her dad spent two weeks in April and said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-430565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115218284768388132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}