Palliative Care
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to repurpose spending on hospital care and emergency admissions for people at the end of life into improving community care services.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
We want a society where every person receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to the end of life.
The Government is determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and their families receive personalised care in the most appropriate setting, and community palliative and end of life care services will have a big role to play in that shift.
Funding provision for hospital care and community care services is subject to the forthcoming Spending Review.
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