"Last autumn Macmillan exposed the fact that every day around 100 people with cancer die in hospitals in England having said they wanted to die at home."
Can we live with how we're dying? Advancing the case for free social care at the end of life
Macmillan Cancer Support
June 2014
Read more here.
Showing posts with label end of life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label end of life. Show all posts
Friday, 11 July 2014
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Impact of the Marie Curie Nursing Service on place of death and hospital use at the end of life
"Home-based palliative care has the potential to improve care at the end of life by reducing the demand for costly and often undesirable hospital care, and allowing more people to die at home."
The impact of the Marie Curie Nursing Service on place of death and hospital use at the end of life
X Chitnis, T Georghiou, A Steventon, M Bardsley
Nuffield Trust
November 2012
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Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Value of healthcare services
Doctors, nurses and other health professionals are coming together with patients and their representatives to look at health services in south west London in the Better Services, Better Value review. The following six reports show much of the thinking and analysis that has taken place to understand how people use the south west London health services and the quality of the service they receive in terms of outcomes and experience.
- Long-term conditions and out of hospital care (including mental health) clinical working group: draft clinical report
- Planned care clinical working group: draft clinical report
- Maternity and newborn clinical working group: draft clinical report
- Children's services clinical working group: draft clinical report
- End of life care working group: draft clinical report
- Urgent care clinical working group: draft clinical report
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