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Death and dying are inevitable. The quality and accessibility of this care will affect all of us. The needs of people of all ages who are living with dying, death and bereavement, their families, carers and communities, must be addressed, taking into account their priorities, preferences and wishes.
Personal health budgets can provide an opportunity for people in their final weeks and months of life to have a more personalised experience of care. They can give people more choice about who provides their care, where their care is received, and their preferred place of death. People who become eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare […]
Following a national conference which shared the opportunities for people to shape their own end of life care, Suzanne Jones, Programme Lead for Personal Health Budgets in the End of Life Pathway team explains what we can do to take action this year. It’s not very often that you hear people talking about their hopes […]
NHS England’s National Clinical Directors for Dementia and End of Life Care, together with Clinical Fellow Elena Baker Glenn, examine the stark findings of a recent national end of life care intelligence network briefing on dementia: Death and dying are emotive subjects at the best of times and there has recently been interest and publicity […]
Most of us would prefer not to be in hospital if we don’t need to, especially if we have a limited time left to live. The key phrase here is – ‘if we don’t need to’ – but need comes in so many different forms: treatment-related, symptom-related, care-related etc. Sometimes, that need can only be […]
September 2015 saw the publication of the national policy document “Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: a national framework for local action”. This came from the National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership, made up of statutory bodies including NHS England, the Association of Adult Social Services, charities and groups representing patients […]
This is NHS England’s report of a public consultation undertaken on the collection of feedback relating to the quality of end of life care. It sets out the findings of the consultation and how they are likely to contribute to any potential changes to the format and structure of the survey in the future.
NHS England’s first strategy for end of life care in England, published in 2008, has succeeded in reversing the trend of increasing the proportion of deaths taking place in hospital. Although that significant achievement must be appreciated, the reality is that many people will continue to die in hospitals, sometimes by their own choice, sometimes […]
The National Director at Hospice UK explains how hospices are ready to play their role in delivering the very best end of life care: We may be leading the world in terms of services, systems and availability of pain killers at the end of life according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, but a crucial challenge […]