PALLIATIVE CARE

Early day motion 666, tabled 7 February 2005 by Bob Spink (Conservative). Signed by 56 members.

That this House congratulates Sue Ryder Care on its campaign to ensure that people with cancer and other life shortening illnesses, together with their families, receive the best care and support possible based on the principles that everyone has the right to access the palliative services they need, that everyone should be able to exercise choice about the place they are cared for at the end of their lives, and that everyone is entitled to a good death, which means people should be enabled to spend their final days free of pain, with dignity, in the place of their choice; and calls on the Government to deliver this ideal.

Signatures by party: Labour 26, Liberal Democrat 12, Conservative 7, DUP 4, Labour/Co-operative 4, UUP 2, Plaid Cymru 1.