Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 23189
Drugs: Hospices
Tabled: 10 January 2025
Answered: 23 January 2025
Named DayQuestion
Mr Paul Foster
Labour — South Ribble
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring the NHS to pay for all medications supplied to hospices.
Answer
Stephen KinnockPalliative and end of life care is commissioned at a local level by integrated care boards (ICBs). Consequently, neither the Department nor NHS England hold data centrally on which hospices have all medication supplied for free or at a discounted rate by ...
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