Palliative Care: Finance
(asked on 27th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much additional funding he plans to allocate to palliative care in the next financial year.
This question was answered on 4th February 2020
As with the vast majority of National Health Service services, the funding and commissioning of palliative and end of life care is a local matter, over which individual clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have responsibility. CCGs are best placed to understand the needs of local populations and allocate funding for services to meet those needs from the overall resource allocations they receive.