More financial support from Government for palliative care from 2024: Ong Ye Kung

SINGAPORE – Subsidies for palliative care will go up and the MediShield Life claim limits for inpatients will also be adjusted from the first half of 2024 to improve affordability and access to such services.

“MediShield Life claim limits will be raised from $250 and $350 per day for general and specialised inpatient palliative care, respectively, to $460 and $500 per day. These limits will be sufficient to fully cover nine in 10 subsidised patients,” Mr Ong said. “Compassionate discharges from hospital to home are critical moments but they encounter barriers today. Many families are concerned about coping with care at home for a patient who is dying, and we need to address this,” he said.

“I had no doubt she would have wanted to go home, even if it was to pass on.” She died “surrounded by loved ones gathered around her hospital bed”. The Ministry of Health is also expanding the home-based respite care scheme, with hospitals now making direct referrals for those who are compassionately discharged home.

Moving forward, Mr Ong assured that regardless of household income level, drug subsidies will be made available to all patients receiving palliative care from MOH-funded providers from the fourth quarter of 2024. “Our nursing homes, home care and family doctors can and will need to play a larger role in caring for their patients approaching their end-of-life. We need to train them, and provide them with more support,” he added.

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