Palliative Care: Finance
Commons · Question 9729 · Tabled 17 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Rachael Maskell
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of providing a universal palliative care service.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 24 Oct 2024
No estimate has been made of the cost to the public purse of providing a universal palliative care service. It is difficult to quantify the total provision of, or spend on, palliative and end of life care at either a national or local integrated care boar...