Question follow-through · 17664
Palliative Care: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of workforce shortages on the delivery of palliative care services.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2025 · 36 calendar days after tabling
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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
3 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of workforce shortages on the delivery of palliative care services.
5 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
The delivery of palliative and end of life care services is a devolved matter. We want to assure ourselves and the National Health Service in England that it has access to the workforce it needs in the years ahead to ensure that patients, including those ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Electronic Cigarettes: Packaging
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17 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that British dentists are prioritized when allocating Licence in Dental Surgery examination places.
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Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy: Shortages
3 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 35462 on Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy shortages, what the (a) dates and (b) attendees were of meetings held with (i) clinicians, (ii) pat
Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy: Imports
3 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 35462 on Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy shortages, if he will publish the volume of unlicensed pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy stock