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Monday, 4 July 2011

Questions in Writing

Health: Terminally Ill and Palliative Care Patients (Question No. 401)

Photo of Paul FletcherPaul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 30 May 2011:

In the 2008, 2009 and 2010 and 2011 (to date) calendar years:

(1) How many people died of a terminal illness in hospital.

(2) How many people died in (a) palliative, and (b) in-patient palliative, care facilities.

(3) How many palliative care facility out-patients died at home.

(4) What information exists on terminally ill patient preferences for dying in (a) hospitals, (b) palliative care facilities, or (c) home.

(5) What information exists concerning the cost implications of terminally ill patients dying in (a) hospitals, (b) palliative care facilities, or (c) home.

(6) What policies has the Government developed to help manage the needs of the terminally ill, including the costs.

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