Ease hospice cash crisis with ‘foreign aid’

Should Britain's overseas aid budget be diverted to hospices?

IT is reliably reported that hospices in the UK are in financial crisis and 80 per  cent of them will need to  make staff redundant very  soon.

When demand for their services is not declining and their abilities to raise money have been wiped out surely, in a caring society, this cannot continue?

We spend £13.4bn on international aid per year;  much of it on spurious vanity projects.

Thgere are calls for part of Britain's foreign aid budget to be switched to hospices.

Surely it is time for aid (charity) to be spent at  home in this current health crisis?

If we gave from this  fund £5m to each of the 200 approximately hospices that would be £1bn – just under  seven per cent of the total allocated to overseas development.

Is this not a reasonable solution to a funding  crisis for an important  sector in our own caring  society?

Perhaps The Yorkshire Post – or other organisations – might like to get behind a campaign to put our country first and show that  we do care for our own communities and that charity begins at home?

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Ease hospice cash crisis with ‘foreign aid’ – Yorkshire Post Letters

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