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Photo of Caroline Dinenage Caroline Dinenage Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care) 12:00, 23 October 2018

My hon. Friend is absolutely right to mention this. Palliative care is crucial to the experience not only of patients but of their families and carers. He will be interested to know that we have a new indicator from 2018-19 to measure the proportion of people who have had three or more emergency admissions in their last 90 days of life, which will help us to assess how people can be better supported in the community, and to do that better.