Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of data in VOICES Surveys showing that less than one fifth of respondents felt that patients dying at home had their pain controlled completely, all of the time, during the last two days of life.

It is important that all patients at the end of life have their pain adequately controlled. Data from the most recent National Survey of Bereaved People (VOICES) survey, published by the Office for National Statistics in 2016, found that in the last two days of life, just over 80% of respondents strongly agreed (42.3%) or agreed (27.9%) that patients dying at home had sufficient pain relief. Just under 11% of respondents disagreed (6.8%) or strongly disagreed (4.9%).