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Government announces investment in health in Spending Review - our reaction

11 Jun 2025

Today, the Chancellor announced the outcome of the Spending Review, which decides government spending over the next few years until 2029.

This included a 3% real-terms increase in investment in health for every year. This funding will support the Government’s plans to make three ‘big shifts’ - from analogue to digital, treatment to prevention and hospital to community.

James Sanderson, Chief Executive at Sue Ryder, said:

“We welcome the investment in health announced today by the Chancellor in the Spending Review. What we now need to see is commitments in the NHS 10 Year Plan to support new models of palliative and end-of-life care (PEoLC) which help to reduce deaths in acute settings and support the government’s ambitions to move more care into the community.

“Our Sue Ryder Alongside Model creates a new ecosystem for PEoLC which will achieve this, ensuring that everyone can get the care they need at the end of life.”

The Alongside Model, our vision for a new ecosystem for palliative and end-of-life care:

  • Provide a new approach to hospital care: Develop dedicated Alongside suites on NHS sites to provide compassionate, tailored care for those approaching the end of life and relieve pressure on hospital teams.
  • Increase support for people in their own homes: Expand care in the community through partnerships, virtual wards, and increased hospice-at-home services to help more people die at home and to reduce emergency admissions.
  • Integrate hospices with neighbourhood health infrastructure: Make full use of hospices’ expertise and space to support people with complex multi-morbidities and those in the last 1000 days of life, preventing emergency admissions and helping people to live well.
  • Enhance training and collaboration: Ensure healthcare professionals can access the right training to better support people approaching the end of life and improve system working.
  • Provide knowledge and resources to patients: Help people to record their wishes for the end of life, so more of their needs are met by the people involved in their care.

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