Hospice Staff Salaries | First Minister’s Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates

A report this week by Hospice UK found that two thirds of hospices in Scotland have made cuts or are planning to do so within the next year due to financial pressures. Every time that there are salary rises in the national health service, hospice staff do not directly benefit, and, therefore, there are pressures on recruitment and retention. At the same time that the Scottish Government is considering the funding of proposals for assisted dying, does the First Minister share my view that we should assist hospices with funding salaries to the same level as in the NHS in future?

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