Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 23189

Drugs: Hospices

Tabled: 10 January 2025
Answered: 23 January 2025
Named Day

Question

Mr Paul Foster

LabourSouth 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 Kinnock
Palliative 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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