Question follow-through · 9727
Palliative Care: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle inequalities in access to end of life care services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle inequalities in access to end of life care services.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government is determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure that patients and their families receive personalised care in the most appropriate setting, and palliative and end of life care services will have a b...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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