Question follow-through · 1862
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local integration care boards implement the modern service framework for palliative and end of life care.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 15 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2026
- Answer
- 19 May 2026 · 4 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
15 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local integration care boards implement the modern service framework for palliative and end of life care.
19 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2026
Answer published
The Modern Service Framework (MSF) for Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care will provide a clinically-led, evidence-based framework to support sustained improvement in patient and carer outcomes, including reducing both inequality and unwarranted variatio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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