The aim of end of life care should be to help people to live as well as possible until they die and to help people to die with dignity.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
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Episode 25. To many, death and dying have no value and are relegated to the margins of our lives. What could be an enriching and meaningful phase of life can become over-medicalised, transactional and...
Why working on the Gold Line has left a lasting impression on all those involved.
Enabling the high quality care and support needed for people to spend their last days at home.
Here we find out a bit more about the Gold Line and the wider programme of work it is part of.
Two year research project on shared decision making in end of life settings. Working with the Sue Ryder Care Centre for the Study of Supportive, Palliative and End of Life Care at the University of No...
This Spreading Improvement project looks to improve end-of-life care using the methodology of the Patient and Family-Centred Care (PFCC) programme. This project, led by the Point of Care Foundation, w...
This project from St Gemma’s Hospice involves developing and piloting a nurse-led service that offers end-of-life care to dying patients with generalist palliative care needs within a hospice environm...
It is summer 2012. Sitting at the hospital bedside of a family member. The staff had just reviewed the continued appropriateness of the LCP – 'The Liverpool Care Pathway', a term we all came to know v...
The controversy over the Liverpool Care Pathway that has raged for the past 10 days or so, following horrid and misleading headlines from some newspapers, has this week collided with the Government’s ...
Led by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and supported by partner organisations, this project aimed to improve the safety and quality of care for patients in their last year of life. The team are providin...
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