Question follow-through · 20247

Halton Haven Hospice and Hospice of the Good Shepherd

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take additional steps to support (a) Halton Haven and (b) Good Shepard Hospice in Runcorn and Helsby constituency.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 16 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 18 Dec 2024
Answer: 8 Jan 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take additional steps to support (a) Halton Haven and (b) Good Shepard Hospice in Runcorn and Helsby constituency.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
Palliative care services are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB), such as the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB, which covers the Runcorn and Helsby constituency, must commission. This promotes a more consistent national approach and...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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6 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce NHS waiting lists in Runcorn and Helsby constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Rehabilitation: Health Services

7 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what step he plans to take to increase access to rehabilitation health services in the (a) community and (b) acute health sectors.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Care Workers: Pay and Vacancies

7 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) the average wages paid to social care sector workers and (b) the current number of vacancies in the sector.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Disabled Facilities Grants

7 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the local disabled facilities grants.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Brain: Tumours

8 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to prioritise screening for brain tumours.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prostate Cancer: Screening

8 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a national screening programme for prostate cancer.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Drugs and Pharmacy

10 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of (a) trends in the level of costs of medicines and (b) potential closures of community pharmacies.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Palliative Care: Health Professions

15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of palliative care specialists available in the care system.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Palliative Care: Training

15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of training given to palliative care specialists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Palliative Care: Telephone Services

15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a designated out of hours palliative care advice line in every region.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Palliative Care: Finance

15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of allocating palliative care funding through a long-term centrally managed, ringfenced grant.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Social Prescribing

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