Hospital chaplains play an ‘important’ role in the NHS, and the Government values their work, a Conservative Peer has said. Speaking in the House of Lords, Earl Howe said the Government is committed to giving patients and staff in the NHS access to ‘spiritual care’. Chaplains came under fierce attack from secularists last year who launched a campaign to remove their funding. Earl Howe said the chaplains ‘play an important part in providing high-quality spiritual care services to patients and staff, and we are committed to ensuring that patients and staff in the NHS have access to the spiritual care that they want, whatever faith they may have’. The Bishop of Chichester, the Rt Revd John Hind, had earlier pointed out that ‘a chaplain often serves more patients directly each week than any other single healthcare professional working in a hospital’.

Pray: for hospital chaplains and that their valuable services will be secure in the future. (Jas.5:15)

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