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Palliative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) preparing and (b) publishing a national strategy for (i) palliative and (ii) end-of-life care.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
30 Oct 2025
Answer
30 Dec 2025 · 63 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Oct 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 (a) preparing and (b) publishing a national strategy for (i) palliative and (ii) end-of-life care.

  2. 30 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is developing a Palliative Care and End of Life Care Modern Service Framework (MSF) for England. I refer the hon. member to the Written Ministerial Statement HCWS1087 I gave to the House on 24 November 2025.The MSF will drive improvements i...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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