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Palliative Care: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include provisions in the NHS 10-Year Plan on the (a) funding, (b) planning, (c) provision and (d) commissioning at (i) national and (ii) regional level of children’s palliative

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
7 May 2025
Target answer date
12 May 2025
Answer
20 May 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include provisions in the NHS 10-Year Plan on the (a) funding, (b) planning, (c) provision and (d) commissioning at (i) national and (ii) regional level of children’s palliative

  2. 12 May 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 20 May 2025

    Answer published

    We want a society where every child and young 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...

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