Petition Petition Minister of Health - Establish Hospice Suites in NHS Hospitals

The current Office of National Statistics survey of End of Life Care, ‘Voices’, shows 96% of the dying strongly prefer home care or some more private and congenial place to die than the wards of a Hospital. Only 3% prefer Hospital yet half of deaths annually in England will occur on the wards.

More details

Hospice care is the ‘centre of excellence’ for palliative care but most of us will die on the wards. We could have privacy, dignity and specialised care in Hospice Suites requiring reorganisation rather than more resources to establish.

A recent Select Committee hearing had an NHS spokesman claiming this provision would reduce the skills of generalist Nurses and Doctors, as if patients exist only to provide practical experience for medical staff. The dying should enjoy the best we can provide.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

26 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 26 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 19 November 2016
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.