Question follow-through · 23189
Drugs: Hospices
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring the NHS to pay for all medications supplied to hospices.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2025 · 13 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
10 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring the NHS to pay for all medications supplied to hospices.
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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23 Jan 2025
Answer published
Palliative and end of life care is commissioned at a local level by integrated care boards (ICBs). Consequently, neither the Department nor NHS England hold data centrally on which hospices have all medication supplied for free or at a discounted rate by ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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