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Palliative Care: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of specialist paediatric palliative medicine consultants within Frimley Integrated Care Board.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
3 Nov 2025
Answer
10 Nov 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of specialist paediatric palliative medicine consultants within Frimley Integrated Care Board.

  2. 3 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 10 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    Palliative care and end of life care is wide-ranging, provided by generalist as well as specialist healthcare professionals, and is not disease or diagnosis specific. A large proportion of palliative and end of life care is not provided by palliative care...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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