Palliative care outsourced to the voluntary sector at two trusts

Source: The Guardian

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Date: July 2011

Publication type: Web article

In a nutshell: This article discusses the transfer of specialist palliative care services to charities from 2 NHS trusts. The drive to outsource palliative care comes from the Department of Health’s transforming community services programme, which in 2009 instructed primary care trusts to stop directly providing services. While some PCTs opted to transfer responsibility for palliative care to foundation trusts or community foundation trusts, Rotherham and Berkshire West outsourced to the voluntary sector.