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Palliative Care: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) mechanisms exist and (b) steps he is taking to ensure that integrated care boards are accountable for their commissioning of children’s palliative care.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
3 Apr 2025
Answer
3 Apr 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 31 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) mechanisms exist and (b) steps he is taking to ensure that integrated care boards are accountable for their commissioning of children’s palliative care.

  2. 3 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the commissioning of palliative and end of life care services, including for children and young people, to meet the needs of their local populations. To support ICBs in this duty, NHS England has published...

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