Hospice UK – Grants to Improve Care for People with Progressive Neurological Conditions

The funding aims to facilitate a sustainable change in care for people with progressive neurological conditions.

The grants are to enable hospices to initiate or build on programmes of work that will support people with progressive neurological conditions.

This can be through a number of ways:

• Putting into practice the recommendations or findings from an organisational or local scoping/service mapping exercise.
• Piloting a new project based on a robust needs assessment.
• Introduction of an intervention or tool.
• Adapting existing activities where, through the investment of additional resources, greater impact can be achieved through adoption of new roles and approaches.
• Responding to national policy or research evidence.

The following are examples of projects:

• The provision of respite care.
• Symptom management, such as breathlessness and/or fatigue.
• Rehabilitative approaches.
• Care co-ordination.
• Outpatient services.
• Remote/outreach services for those who struggle to travel.
• Carer education and support, including symptom management and psychological support.
• Hospices with experience of supporting people with neurological conditions partnering with less experienced hospice.

Some projects may also support hospices to work with other organisations in their area to raise awareness of the benefit of the early integration of palliative care and work to encourage increased earlier referrals to appropriate hospice care.