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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(23 October 2025)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to publish a national strategy for palliative and end of life care.

Asked by:
Patrick Hurley (Labour)

Answer

The Department and NHS England are currently looking at how to improve the access, quality, and sustainability of all-age palliative care and end of life care in line with the 10-Year Health Plan.

We are supporting the hospice sector with a £100 million capital funding boost for eligible adult and children’s hospices in England to ensure they have the best physical environment for care.

We are also providing £26 million in revenue funding to support children and young people’s hospices for 2025/26. I am pleased to confirm the continuation of circa £26 million, adjusted for inflation, for the next three financial years, 2026/27 to 2028/29 inclusive, to be distributed again via integrated care boards. This amounts to approximately £80 million over the next three years.


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