COVID-19 funding allocated to Scottish hospices: FOI release
- Published
- 27 April 2021
- Directorate
- Healthcare Quality and Improvement Directorate
- FOI reference
- FOI/202100179939
- Date received
- 18 March 2021
- Date responded
- 13 April 2021
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Information requested
Can you please provide details of how much funding the Scottish Government has given to hospices across the country following the UK Government giving an additional £125 million Covid funding in November 2020? I would like to know how much of that allocated funding has been used by the Scottish Government to help hospices in Scotland?
Response
In response to your request we can confirm that the total funding allocated to Scottish Hospices to support their work during the pandemic in the financial year 2020/2021 is approximately £27m, exceeding the estimated consequentials funding of £24 million.
The breakdown of payments can be viewed in the table below.
| Hospice | Amount paid in June 2020 |
Amount paid in March 2021 |
| Accord | £396k | £540k |
| Ardgowan | £396k | £341k |
| Ayrshire | £792k | £972k |
| Bethesda | £99k | £257k |
| CHAS | £1,287k | £3,236k |
| Highland | £792k | £1,040k |
| Kilbryde | £320k | £741k |
| Marie Curie | £1,584k | £2,116k |
| P&PW | £1,089k | £544k |
| St Andrew's | £891k | £1,361k |
| St Columba's | £792k | £2,574k |
| St Margaret | £396k | £1,758k |
| St Vincent's | £297k | £233k |
| Strathcarron | £990k | £1,188k |
| Total | £10.1m | £16.9m |
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