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Motion · S6M-16721 · 5 Mar 2025

Marie Curie’s Great Daffodil Appeal 2025

Lodged by Paul Sweeney (Scottish Labour) Standard Motion 27 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament welcomes the Marie Curie Great Daffodil Appeal 2025, which runs throughout March; believes that the Great Daffodil Appeal is Marie Curie’s most prominent awareness-raising campaign of the year; understands that Marie Curie is the biggest charitable funder of palliative care research in the UK; notes that it aims to better understand unmet palliative care need and support a better end of life for all; commends Marie Curie, which, it believes, is the largest third sector provider of palliative and end of life care for adults in Scotland; recognises that Marie Curie is able to support people to die at home, if that is their wish, through its Hospice Care at Home teams in local authorities across Scotland; commends the work of the two Marie Curie hospices in Edinburgh and Glasgow in providing inpatient and outpatient support in the community; further commends the Marie Curie volunteers who work to address isolation and loneliness at the end of life; believes that, due to Scotland’s ageing population, more people will be dying with palliative care needs than ever before and that this trend is projected to increase further; considers that this rising need for palliative care places a burden on the health and social care system; believes that failing to deliver the care and support that people need at the end of life places unscheduled, secondary and primary care services under increased pressure; believes that what it sees as the current unmet and growing need for palliative care means that that the care and support from Marie Curie will remain an essential service in Scotland; recognises that Marie Curie is a social justice and campaigning organisation committed to working whole-system to address end of life poverty; believes that everyone in Scotland should have an end of life experience that reflects what is important to them, and encourages people to support the Marie Curie Great Daffodil Appeal.

Supporters (27)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.