Approaches using digital technologies to support advance care planning (ACP) and care coordination are being used in palliative and end of life care. While providing opportunities to facilitate ...

Design All deaths of patients (n=2176) known to the specialist palliative care service over a 5-year period were examined through service evaluation to compare the actual place of death with the ...

Introduction The rising global prevalence of cancer reveals significant regional disparities in palliative care adoption. While some countries have incorporated palliative care into their systems, ...

Background More than half of patients with a terminal diagnosis want to die at home. NICE recommend provision of injectable anticipatory medications as a way of managing symptoms and facilitating this ...

Aims Evaluate the outcomes of patients attending a day case paracentesis service provided in a hospice. Review opportunities available for patients to participate in advance care planning (ACP) ...

Objectives Most clinical teams and organisations have not openly or formally discussed how they would react if physician-assisted suicide were to be legalised. This paper aims to discuss some of the ...

Background It is common for care to be coordinated by a range of health care professionals and administration staff with varying backgrounds and experience. Many services rely on clinical judgement as ...

Background Pain is frequently an undetected cause of agitation and distress in dementia; and thus often a cause of behavioural and psychological symptom of dementia (BPSD). Despite a plethora of tools ...

Conclusion HCNS non-medical prescribing is an invaluable addition to the skill set of our team. The NMPs feel enabled to discuss and advise clinicians regarding medication and write up palliative drug ...

Background The PEACE (Proactive Elderly Advance Care) plan supports proactive planning of community care escalation through documenting patient wishes and communicating these with care stakeholders in ...

Objective To understand the unique ethical and professional challenges confronting first and second year doctors in caring for people who are dying, and to learn what factors help or hinder them in ...

Context An increasing amount of health policy is formulated at global level. At this global level, palliative care has attracted support primarily from normative institutions (WHO), not funding ...