Report shows UK spends £11.7bn on hospital care for terminal patients who would rather die at home or in a hospiceThe UK spends £11.7bn on people’s health in the last year of their life, largely on hospital...
Read MoreCommittee chair Layla Moran says doctors’ concerns about potential impact on vulnerable patients must be heededIt would be “foolish” for the government not to heed warnings from doctors about palliative care as...
Read MoreComment came during PM’s afternoon facing questions from the liaison committeeIn her response to the statement from Karin Smyth, Caroline Johnson, the shadow health minister, suggested the extra money for hospices would...
Read MorePM to face liaison committee this afternoonIn her response to the statement from Karin Smyth, Caroline Johnson, the shadow health minister, suggested the extra money for hospices would not fully compensate the extra costs the...
Read MoreHospices struggling with increases to wages and NICs say cash is ringfenced and will not ease day-to-day pressuresUK politics live – latest updatesHospices in England are to receive a £100m-plus boost to funding amid...
Read MoreMark Wild also admitted that HS2 had been rushed and ‘construction started way too early’In her response to the statement from Karin Smyth, Caroline Johnson, the shadow health minister, suggested the extra money for...
Read MoreLayla Moran and Diane Abbott say end-of-life care needs more funding after bill passed for England and WalesMPs on both sides of the debate over assisted dying have called for improvements to palliative care, regardless of...
Read MoreStephen Doughty, foreign office minister, says if UK had not negotiated a deal with Mauritius, ‘a legally binding decision against UK seemed inevitable’Wes Streeting has now delivered his speech to the NHS Providers...
Read MoreStephen Doughty, foreign office minister, says if UK had not negotiated a deal with Mauritius, ‘a legally binding decision against UK seemed inevitable’Wes Streeting has now delivered his speech to the NHS Providers...
Read MoreHealth secretary escalates opposition to mooted reform, saying it would have ‘resource implications’ for other servicesIn a column for the i, Kitty Donaldson suggests the assisted dying bill looks increasingly...
Read MoreSector says ‘too many people dying in avoidable pain’, with soaring numbers being pushed back into the NHSOne in five hospices in the UK are cutting services amid the worst funding crisis in two decades, a report has...
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