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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 creating a national strategy for palliative and end of life care.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
31 Oct 2025
Target answer date
4 Nov 2025
Answer
14 Nov 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 31 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 creating a national strategy for palliative and end of life care.

  2. 4 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 14 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    The Department and NHS England are currently looking at how to improve the access, quality, and sustainability of all-age palliative care and end of life care in line with the 10-Year Health Plan.We are supporting the hospice sector with a £100 million ca...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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