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How does palliative care fit into national health spending? A secondary analysis of trends in long-term healthcare expenditure in the United Kingdom

2026-01-24 palliative medicine Title + abstract only
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ObjectivesCurrent methods of health expenditure reporting make spending on palliative care services difficult to quantify. This paper (1) examines trends in the components of government (public) spending on health-related long-term care reported in the UK Health Accounts for the period of 2013 to 2022 to establish the wider context of palliative care expenditure, and (2) relates these trends to existing knowledge of expenditure on specialist palliative care services in the UK. MethodsWe conduct...

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