Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) regime was introduced in 2016 and expanded in 2021. Within its framework, ...

Relational nature of decision-making between patients with advanced illness and their caregivers in palliative care: a systematic review and narrative synthesis ...

1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 School of Nursing, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to Dr Clare Gardiner, School of ...

Background In Wales, the term advance care planning now falls under the wider umbrella term ‘Future Care Planning’, which also includes patients with diminished mental capacity and their significant ...

Correspondence to Dr Benjamin Thomas, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia; benjamin.thomas{at}health.nsw.gov.au ...

Correspondence to Mr Ben Bowers, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; bb527{at}medschl.cam.ac.uk The recent Gosport War Memorial Hospital ...

Objective To explore how bereaved family members recall managing end of life medications when delivering care to a patient dying at home in England. Design Qualitative study. Setting Domestic homes in ...

Background Falls guidelines were updated for the hospice in 2022 with risk assessment currently based on the Morse Falls Scale and NICE quality standards on falls. New Assessment frameworks were also ...

Correspondence to Dr Paul Taylor, St Luke’s Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, School of Health and Related Research, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DA, UK; ...

Background There is ongoing concern about the variable access to supportive and end of life care (EOLC) and many individuals are not receiving support at the point of need. To try to overcome these ...

Introduction The Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: a national framework for local action (2015) was relaunched in 2021 for another five years. The Framework focuses on six ambitions, ...

Correspondence to Joseph Clark, Department of Public Health, University of Sheffield, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield S1 4DA, UK; ...