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£4 of every £5 is spent on hospital care at end of life

Knowing where money is spent is as important for governments as it is for families and individuals, but for the past decade, surprisingly little has been known about spending on dying people. That’s why Marie Curie commissioned the Nuffield Trust and the Health Economics Unit to estimate public expenditure on people in their last year of life in the UK.

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£4 of every £5 is spent on hospital care at end of life

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PODCAST: On the Marie Curie Couch with Roderick Williams MBE

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