Background: If global palliative care is to successfully address challenges of unequal access,
continuity of care, and health services reductionism, new practice models to address these …

Background Reducing emergency admissions to hospital has been a cornerstone of healthcare
policy. Little evidence exists to show that systematic interventions across a population …

Specialist palliative care, within hospices in particular, has historically led and set the standard
for caring for patients at end of life. The focus of this care has been mostly for patients with …

Objective To examine how much oncologists tell patients about the survival benefit of palliative
chemotherapy during consultations at which decisions about treatment are made. Design …

Palliative care, since its inception over 60 years ago, has set the standard of how to care for
people who are dying. Key features among these standards have been the professional …

Objectives There is limited evidence of the impact of advance care planning (ACP) on outcomes.
We conducted a retrospective cohort study on deaths of all patients known to a hospice …

The development of the speciality of palliative care has done an enormous amount over the
last 60 years to help relieve the suffering of people diagnosed with a terminal illness, …

Compassionate communities as part of the public health approach to end-of-life care (EoLC)
offers the possibility of solving the inequity of the difference in provision of care for those …

Background Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems (EPaCCS) are England's pre-eminent
initiative in enabling advance care planning and improved communication and …

How may communities be mobilised to help someone dying at home? This conceptual
article outlines the thinking behind an innovative compassionate community project being …