Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 116299

Palliative Care: Standards

Tabled: 26 February 2026

Answered: 3 March 2026

Question

Mr Lee Dillon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve 24-hour Urgent Community Response services for people at the end of life.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock

The Government is committed to ensuring that people approaching the end of life receive high-quality, compassionate care whenever it is needed.Urgent community response (UCR) services play a key role in this. UCR provides a two-hour community-based respon...

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