Question follow-through · 6422
Hospices: Social and Community Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the use of hospices in social and community care.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the use of hospices in social and community care.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
We want a society where every person, their families, and carers, receive high-quality, compassionate care, from diagnosis through to end of life. The Government is determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure tha...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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