AQW 53384/11-16

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 25/01/2016
Answered On Date: 10/02/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to detail when the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority review of the Living Matters: Dying Matters Strategy will be published; and whether he will support its recommendations regarding palliative and end of life care.

Answer:

The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority’s report of the review of the implementation of the Living Matters: Dying Matters Palliative and End of Life Care Strategy for adults was published on 28 January 2016.

I welcome the review’s findings that significant progress was made during the period 2010 to 2015 towards implementing the recommendations of the Living Matters: Dying Matters Strategy.

My Department will carefully consider the report’s findings and recommendations to inform the planning and delivery of quality palliative and end of life care in Northern Ireland.