Posted in News on Jan 26th, 2010
The National Council for Palliative Care has called on the government to take action now to ensure that more people are able to die where they want to be and whilst receiving good quality care. A sharp rise is expected in the number of people dying every year, a rising proportion of whom will have [...]
Posted in News on Sep 30th, 2009
One of the issues raised within the current debate over legal euthanasia is the question of whether the Liverpool Care Pathway is being used appropriately by hospitals and care homes. The Pathway was introduced in 2007 as part of the Government’s National End of Life Care Programme, with the aim of ensuring that patients [...]
Posted in News on Jul 23rd, 2009
The Times has discovered that £286 million of funding allocated by the Government to improve end of life care services has not been used for this purpose. 90% of PCTs surveyed by the charity Help the Hospices said that the money has been ‘lost on the NHS balance sheet’ or redirected to other areas. [...]
Posted in News on Jul 20th, 2009
The NHS and Isle of Wight council have launched a month-long consultation process to gather thoughts and opinions on the IoW’s new end of life care strategy. The strategy aims to support the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of patients and their carers. In particular, it will enable people to die at home [...]
Posted in News on Jun 30th, 2009
The sector skills councils Skills for Health and Skills for Care have unveiled a new set of key skills for all staff that work with terminally-ill people. The move comes in response to the Government’s End of Life Care Strategy, published in July 2008, and is designed to bring about ‘a cultural shift in [...]
Posted in News on Jun 29th, 2009
South West Essex PCT has announced that it will be providing funds to enable better end-of-life care in the county after NHS chiefs admitted that too many patients are dying in hospital simply because there is nowhere else for them to go. The Trust is spending £161,000 on improving services such as palliative care [...]
Posted in News on Apr 16th, 2009
The Nursing Times has published an article establishing the principles of palliative care nursing and end-of-life care. The article defines palliative care according to the World Health Organisation and to the UK standards set out by the National Council of Palliative Care. It then explains how palliative care is an integral part of [...]
Posted in News on Dec 17th, 2008
The Nursing Times reports that the Government’s cancer director, Professor Mike Richards, wants PCTs to fund 24 hour community nursing services to allow terminally-ill patients to die in their own homes or in a care home. The Government’s End of Life Care Strategy for England is to include the setting-up of fast-response nurse teams [...]
