Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor David Leslie Taylor (Labour and Co-operative Party), on Tuesday, 26 March 2002, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 152 members in total.

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HOSPICE FUNDING

That this House notes that the charity Help the Hospices have submitted an urgent proposal to the Secretary of State for Health requesting that interim hospice funding be considered as part of the Government's 2002 Spending Review pending a longer term solution based on the NICE review into supportive and palliative care; acknowledges that the proposal include a request for the Government to fund the equivalent of the medical and nursing costs of voluntary hospices totalling ??60 million and to uplift such funding on annual basis in line with NHS funding; recognises the tremendous care given to hospices across the country to patients and their relatives; congratulates the thousands of volunteers who raise the majority of the funding for hospices; and urges the Government to view interim funding for the hospices as a priority.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1081 

Session

2001-02

Other sponsors

Michael Fabricant

Paul Marsden

Matthew Green

Subjects

Finance Hospices NHS National Institute for Clinical Excellence

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk