Question follow-through · 46372
Hospices: Community Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the role of hospices in providing care in communities.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 24 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the role of hospices in providing care in communities.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Apr 2025
Answer published
We want a society where every person receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to the end of life.The Government is determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and their families r...
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