A project launching next month should double the amount of end of life care across Surrey, allowing 99 more people to die in their place of choice.
Marie Curie Cancer Care will be working alongside Surrey Community Health and Central Surrey Health to achieve this aim by the end of June 2012.
The project will work with community nursing services and hospices across the county to support people of any diagnosis in the last weeks of life.
Alison Edgington, chief executive of Surrey Community Health, said: “I am delighted that Marie Curie has come on board with this project which has been really successful for the past year.
“We want Surrey patients to have access to the very best care right up to the end of their life and this pilot is doing just that.”
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