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Hospices: Community Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has for the role hospices will play in shifting care into the community.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 12 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 14 Nov 2024
Answer: 20 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

12 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has for the role hospices will play in shifting care into the community.
14 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Nov 2024
Answer published
We have committed to develop a 10-Year Health Plan to deliver an National Health Service fit for the future, by driving three shifts in the way health care is delivered. We will carefully be considering policies, including those that impact people with pa...

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