Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 12
73rd Report - Financial sustainability of adult hospices in England
Published 18 Mar 2026
Addressed to HM Treasury
Public Accounts Committee Financial sustainability of adult hospices in England All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Department and NHS England told us that data on patient-level activity from hospices, which ICBs need in their role as commissioners, is not strong or robust enough, because hospices are only obliged to report activity data when they are funded through a contract.21 Professor Murtagh described how activity across the hospice sector is not understood well enough, and Hospice UK referenced the NAO report that showed the variability in reporting and catching activity data.22 NHS England informed us of their Faster Data Flows programme, but noted that rollout to independent hospices has only recently begun.23
From: Public Accounts Committee, 73rd Report - Financial sustainability of adult hospices in England (HC 1236), 18 March 2026
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 1 June 2026 (deadline 18 May 2026).