The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7466 p200
25 August 2007

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Palliative care funds for Scotland announced

Funding for palliative care model schemes in Scotland was announced this week by the Scottish Executive.

NHS boards were allocated funding last year to allow them to undertake local palliative care model schemes. This week’s announcement confirms that a further allocation will be made for 2007–08 so that these schemes can continue. Details of each board’s allocations are published in an NHS circular. However, the circular points out that this year’s allocation is not recurring and a decision has not yet been made on future funding.

“To that end, it is intended that a workshop will be organised later in the year to consider how palliative care model schemes as well as out-of-hours local services will integrate with the new community pharmacy contract,” it says.