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Palliative Care: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that children with life-limiting conditions have access to children's palliative care in the community (a) out of hours and (b) at weekends.

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 31 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 2 Apr 2025
Answer: 7 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

31 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that children with life-limiting conditions have access to children's palliative care in the community (a) out of hours and (b) at weekends.
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
Palliative care services, including for children and young people, are included in the list of services integrated care boards (ICBs) must commission. ICBs are responsible for the commissioning of palliative and end of life care services to meet the needs...

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