Silicosis: Terminal Illnesses

(asked on 3rd July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of terminally-ill people with silicosis.


Answered by
Seema Kennedy Portrait
Seema Kennedy
This question was answered on 12th July 2019

The number of terminally ill people with silicosis is not held centrally. Terminally ill patients may be cared for in settings outside the National Health Service, for example at home or in hospice care.

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