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		Written answer
	answer has question	YhSMVcI3
	answer has answering person	Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately
	answer text	<p>Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for determining the level of National Health Service-funded palliative and end of life care, including hospice care, locally, and they are responsible for ensuring that the services they commission meet the needs of their local population.</p><p>While the NHS has always been required to commission appropriate palliative and end of life care services to meet the reasonable needs of the population, as part of the Health and Care Act 2022, the Government added palliative care services to the list of services an ICB must commission, to clarify this responsibility.</p>
	answer given date	2023-10-23
	answer has answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	written answer has answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
Department of Health and Social Care	answering body has written answer	kzzgPuLV
Department of Health and Social Care	answering body has answer	kzzgPuLV
YhSMVcI3	question has answer	kzzgPuLV
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately	answering person has answer	kzzgPuLV