1 King's College Hospital NHS foundation Trust, London, UK 2 Guy's and St Thomas' NHS foundation Trust, London, UK PEACE (Proactive Elderly Advance CarE) is an advance care planning (ACP) developed at ...
Background Patients with end-stage illness who may be at the end of life often attend the Emergency Department (ED). Such patients have specific needs, which can present challenges in the ED ...
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 ...
Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) regime was introduced in 2016 and expanded in 2021. Within its framework, ...
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 ...
Background Patients who are diagnosed with MND begin a journey of change which affects the individual for the rest of their life. In South West Essex a monthly clinic has been set up enabling the ...
Background A limited number of registered nurses (RNs) on a hospice in-patient unit, and increased complexity of symptom management (Henson, Maddocks, Evans, et al. J Clin Oncol. 2020;38(9):905–914), ...
Correspondence to Professor Irene J Higginson, King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Bessemer Road, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9PJ, ...
Objectives First, to assess if Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems (EPaCCS) was used by different organisations as a tool to share information; second, to assess whether there was a ...
Background Prisoners experience bereavement at a much higher rate than the general population and are likely to have suffered many losses, both prior to and as part of their sentences (Hunt. Prison ...
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 ...
Background Palliative care went through a significant evolution in the 20th century, but the 19th century has been seen my some scholars as the real turning point toward the more modern concept of ...