HC Deb 23 October 2002 vol 391 cc390-1W
Dr. Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the children's hospices broken down by region; and if he will make a statement. [75117]

Ms Blears

The association of children's hospices currently lists twenty eight children's hospices in England providing either hospice or hospice at home services. These are listed below by directorates of health and social care. [77048]

North

  • Brian House, Blackpool, Lancs
  • The Butterwick Children's Hospice, Stockton on Tees
  • Claire House Children's Hospice, Wirral
  • Derian House Children's Hospice, Chorley, Lancs
  • Eden Valley Children's Hospice, Carlisle
  • 391W
  • Francis House Children's Hospice, Stockport
  • Martin House, Wetherby
  • Midlands and Eastern
  • Acorns Children's Hospice (Selly Oak)
  • Acorns Children's Hospice (Walsall)
  • The Donna Louise Trust, Stoke-on-Trent*
  • East Anglia Children's Hospices, Norwich
  • East Anglia Children's Hospices, Cambridge
  • East Anglia Children's Hospices, Ipswich
  • Hope House, Nr Oswestry
  • Iain Rennie Hospice at Home, Tring, Hefts*
  • Keech Cottage Children's Hospice, Nr Luton
  • Little Haven Children's Hospice, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex
  • Rainbows Children's Hospice, Leicester
  • South
  • CHASE Children's Hospice (Christopher's), Guildford
  • Chestnut Tree House, Worthing, West Sussex*
  • Children's Hospice South West, Fremington, North Devon
  • Demelza House Children's Hospice, Sittingbourne, Kent
  • The Ellenor Foundation, Dartford, Kent*
  • Helen House, Oxford
  • James House Children's Hospice in the Home, Etchingham,
  • East Sussex*
  • Naomi House, Winchester
  • St Andrew's Children's Hospice, Grimsby, North East
  • Lincolnshire
  • London
  • Richard House, London

Note: * Currently offering a hospice at home service.

There are in addition a number of children's hospice projects at various stages of development, and organisations, which while not providing hospice services as such, contribute to the invaluable work of supporting children with serious and life threatening illnesses.