An MP who used to work for a children’s hospice is calling for increased funding to help them provide vital care.
Stuart Andrew, whose Pudsey constituency includes Horsforth and Aireborough, highlighted the importance of children’s hospices during a parliamentary debate on care of the dying.
Mr Andrew used his own experience at Martin House children’s hospice to stress the importance of their work.
He said: “The hospice movement was about helping young people who face not only a difficult disease, but the emotional difficulty of not being able live their life in the way we do. Hospices do so much work to make the very best of difficult lives.”
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