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Hospices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the regional variation of funding for charitable hospices.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 21 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 28 Oct 2024
Answer: 6 Nov 2024 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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21 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the regional variation of funding for charitable hospices.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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6 Nov 2024
Answer published
We want a society where every person receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to the end of life. The Government is determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and their families ...

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