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May 2023
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Cash-strapped hospices look at cutting s...

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It's an essential health service that relies on cake stalls and second-hand clothes sales just to keep the lights on. Now some of the country's biggest hospices are warning they will have to cut some services, if they don't get an urgent cash injection from the Government. Ruth Hill has the story.  
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