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Additional £1 million for End of Life Care in Wales
The Health Secretary has announced an additional £1 million to further enhance End of Life Care services in Wales.
The fund will go towards supporting the End of Life Care Delivery Plan 2017-2020, a three year plan which outlines how the Welsh government intends to improve services for patients and their families across Wales.
The plan was published in March this year, and covers all aspects of palliative and end of life care, delivered by both primary and secondary care and the voluntary sector.
To ensure patients’ experiences are consistently improving, the allocated funding will be used for activities such as providing extra training for health professionals to initiate difficult conversations about End of Life Care with patients and their families.
The funding will also be used to support the development of an all Wales streamlined, advanced care planning electronic record system, to take forward research priorities and to support GP clusters in Wales,
It will also be used to pursue a compassionate community approach to End of Life Care through projects such as the ‘Byw Nawr - Live Now’ initiative, which aims to get people in Wales talking more openly about dying and bereavement through awareness raising activities and online resources.
Care at the end of life has been improving in Wales since the first Delivery Plan was published in 2013 in hospitals and for those who wish to spend their last days at home.
Vaughan Gething, Health Secretary, said: “Dying is one of life’s few certainties, and as a result of advances in modern medicine, there are many people living longer with terminal illnesses. It is therefore vital that the best possible end of life and palliative care is made available across Wales.
“I’m pleased to allocate the additional £1 million funding to support the End of Life Care Delivery Plan, which reaffirms our commitment to ensuring people have a healthy, realistic approach to dying, and are able to plan appropriately for the event.
“We want people to be able to end their days in the location of their choice – be that home, hospital or hospice and we want them to have access to high quality care wherever they live and die, whatever their underlying disease or disability.”
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