PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Julian Abel
AU  - Allan Kellehear
AU  - Jason Mills
AU  - Manjula Patel
TI  - Access to palliative care reimagined
AID  - 10.7861/fhj.2021-0040
DP  - 2021 Nov 01
TA  - Future Healthcare Journal
PG  - e699--e702
VI  - 8
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/8/3/e699.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/8/3/e699.full
SO  - Future Healthc J2021 Nov 01; 8
AB  - Access to palliative care is commonly considered as solely a health services challenge rather than a community challenge. Successive healthcare reports continue to pose the question of access and its solution in terms that ask what a service can do rather than what an ally a service can become. However, the question is not what can we do for disadvantaged communities, but rather, what can we do together with them as fellow providers of palliative care. The first part of this article reviews the most common recommendations offered for increasing access to palliative care. The second part advocates an alternative way to address this challenge by employing the key practice methods of a new public health / health promotion approach to palliative care.