We have a plan
This is not a campaign without direction. LHPG is pursuing a structured programme of action - legal, political, and public - to rebuild specialist inpatient palliative care across Liverpool and to hold those responsible to account.
Our demands
What we want right now
A face-to-face meeting with Marie Curie leadership at the highest level
Engagement with the Charity Commissioners regarding Marie Curie's governance and use of charitable funds
Full transparency on the decision-making process behind the Woolton closure
A credible, costed plan to restore specialist inpatient hospice provision for Liverpool
Investigation & Accountability
We are conducting a forensic examination of how the decision to close the Marie Curie inpatient unit was made, who was accountable, and what legal, regulatory, and governance remedies are available.
Commissioning & Restoration
We are working to determine the ICB's strategy for commissioning palliative care across Liverpool, and to ensure that strategy meets the real needs of the city's population - now and in the coming decades.
Our two track strategy
Action Plan
Engaging Liverpool's Representatives
We are writing to all five Liverpool MPs and all 85 Liverpool City Councillors, requesting their support and a clear public statement of position on hospice provision for the city.
We are also engaging the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Mayor Steve Rotheram, who leads the six local authorities of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral.
Liverpool City Council (2026 composition: Labour 59, Liberal Democrats 13, Green 4, Liberal 3, Your Party 3, Independent 3) has a responsibility to its residents.
We are asking them to use their voice.
The ICB's own vision & holding them
to their words
The ICB states:
"Our vision: For the adults, children and young people of Cheshire & Merseyside to live well, before dying with peace and dignity, in the place where they would like to die, supported by the people important to them. The access to care should be equitable across Cheshire & Merseyside with no postcode lottery."
Liverpool currently has insufficient specialist inpatient hospice beds. We are asking the ICB to explain how this is consistent with the vision they have published.