The hospice funding crisis

The World Tonight

Hospices say services are at serious risk of being cut because of a crisis in funding. A hospice caring for terminally ill people tells us it's planning to cut jobs - and beds. We ask whether, as well as money, the relationship between hospices and the NHS needs to change.

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