Palliative and End-of-life Care

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 3:12 pm on 15 June 2022.

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Photo of Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Labour 3:12, 15 June 2022

(Translated)

Thank you very much, and we certainly hope that will happen. Of course, we've already provided £2 million in order to ensure that we see a delivery in this area and, certainly, what we want to see in terms of the capacity on that board and the kinds of people we have on the board is that the new programme should take a more holistic approach to end-of-life care. We know that around 33,000 people die in Wales every year. We expect to see that increasing by 27 per cent by 2040, so providing good end-of-life care for people is going to be crucially important. It's important now, but, with that huge increase, it's also important that we provide more focus to it.