00:00Campaigners in Woolton say Liverpool should be in uproar. One year after hospice beds closed at
00:07the Marie Curie site, the charity shut its 26th bed inpatient unit last summer, saying the Cheshire
00:13and Merseyside Integrated Care Board could not provide sustainable long-term funding above
00:20existing arrangements. A temporary palliative care ward is now operating at Liverpool Heart
00:26and Chest Hospital. It is expected the ward will operate until the 31st of October. Marie Curie
00:33says a range of community services remain available. Liverpool Hospice Action Group argues choices
00:39have been reduced and is seeking a community asset transfer of the site.
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