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Hospices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department taking to expand funding for adult hospices, in the context of the NHS Ten-Year Plan’s commitment to shift more care provision away from hospitals into community healthcar

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
21 Nov 2025
Target answer date
25 Nov 2025
Answer
2 Dec 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 21 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department taking to expand funding for adult hospices, in the context of the NHS Ten-Year Plan’s commitment to shift more care provision away from hospitals into community healthcar

  2. 25 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 2 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is developing a Palliative Care and End of Life Care Modern Service Framework (MSF) for England. The MSF will drive improvements in the services that patients and their families receive at the end of life and enable integrated care boards (...

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