Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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332. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the prospective funding model for palliative care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54777/13]

Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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In line with recommendations contained in Future Health - A Strategic Framework for Reform of the Health Service 2012 - 2015,the HSE is currently working on a Prospective Funding Model for Palliative Care which will assist in integrating and accounting for palliative care across all funding streams and delivery models.

An Expert Group on Prospective Funding in Palliative Care was established in May 2012, to produce a report with recommendations about the development of a Prospective Funding Model for Palliative Care for the consideration of the HSE and the Department of Health. The Group is chaired by Professor Charles Normand, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin, and includes a representative of my Department.

To date the Group has:

- identified and agreed on a model for effective stakeholder collaboration which includes agreement on a high level strategic vision and direction;

- produced a draft report outlining the best practice model of palliative care provision to be considered in the funding model;

- reviewed international approaches to palliative care funding.

I have asked the HSE for an update on the latest position and will furnish this to the Deputy as soon as it is to hand.