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Welsh Government Pumps in Ģ100m to Strengthen NHS
As a review found large gaps in palliative care for people with life-long and terminal illnesses and a shortage of specialist staff, the Government will invest Ģ8m to improve services over the course of three years.
NHS-based palliative care and services provided by the voluntary sector will get Ģ1m this year, rising to Ģ5m in 2010-11.
Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Health and Social Services Edwina Hart said that service level agreements would be established, setting out what palliative care services should be funded by the NHS and what should be funded by voluntary hospices.
Palliative care cuts across all specialities and services have remained patchy across Wales, she said.
That is why, once and for all, I wanted to establish what constitutes core palliative care services and a means for measuring the quality of those services.
In order to address the inequalities of palliative care service provision I must be sure that public funding is directed to where it is needed most in order to ensure that patients and their carers receive the level of palliative care they expect to receive, when and where they expect to receive it.
The money, to be announced by Hart, includes Ģ66m for a new hospital in Mountain Ash and Ģ25.3m to redevelop mental health facilities in North Wales.
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