questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent engagement his Department has undertaken with hospice providers, palliative care charities and sector representatives in developing the proposed Palliative Care and End of Life Care Modern Service Framework; whether he plans to publish a draft framework or consultation prior to implementation; and whether the framework will contain specific measures relating to (a) children’s hospices, (b) hospice-at-home provision, (c) advance care planning, (d) hospice capital funding and estates and (e) workforce recruitment, training and retention across specialist palliative and end of life care services.
answerText: We will publish an interim update on the Modern Service Framework (MSF) for Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care shortly. The final MSF will be published this autumn, to allow comprehensive engagement with sector stakeholders.The MSF will provide a clinic...
heading: Palliative Care