内容摘要：show an 81% increase in the numbers expected to be built in Wiltshire Council's area, up to 3,500 per year.

show an 81% increase in the numbers expected to be built in Wiltshire Council's area, up to 3,500 per year.

It comes as hospices have warned that the sector is facing a financial crisis, although the government has pledged support."[The bill] is not a case of expanding choice, because the choice of having excellent palliative care does not exist at the moment, that needs to be fixed before we do anything else," Dr Blaber said.

The branch of medicine seeks to relieve pain and improve the quality of life for terminally ill patients and in the best examplesto their experience and that of their family.Dr Blaber is against moves to legalise assisted dying, and said if a new law was passed vulnerable patients without access to good quality palliative care could feel pressure to end their lives.

He said he encountered patients who did not want to be a "nuisance" and feared the legislation would add "subtle pressure" to those who felt palliative care was no longer an option.Speaking to BBC Radio WM, he said the sector was "terribly underfunded".

St Giles Hospice, in Lichfield, warned in the summer it was dealing with a £1.5m deficit.

Its CEO Elinor Eustace said sustainable funding was a "must" in order to accommodate everyone in need of end-of-life care."There's a massive stigma around ketamine. It isn't spoken about enough."

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Five hospices caring for terminally ill people have planned job cuts in the past two months due to financial pressures, BBC News has learned.St Giles Hospice, which runs community services and in-patient sites in the West Midlands, has started consulting staff this week on a reduction of 40 posts, including clinical roles, which could involve redundancies.