… The aim of this study was to explore the ‘lived experience’ of a group of patients with palliative
care needs who had recently been in-patients in one acute hospital trust in the north-west …

… Our findings highlight the importance of routine, comprehensive assessment of patients’
concerns and the need for Specialist Palliative Care clinicians to be vigilant in addressing pain …

… used to describe the needs of patients accessing specialist palliative care, including hospice
care. There is no standard definition of complexity in palliative care, nor a distinct set of …

… Although the symptom burden of these diseases is comparable to other cancers, patients
do not access specialist palliative care (SPC) services as often as those with other cancers. To …

… The other thing that is a problem for us on the inpatient side is the palliative care gets called
when we already know the patient and have been caring for the patient for a long time, and I …

… experiences collaborating with specialist palliative care teams in the hospital. Previous
systematic reviews looking at collaboration between generalist and specialist palliative care … care …

… palliative care and specialist palliative care depending on practitioner’s skills and the patient’s
… This study focussed on the establishment of a specialist palliative care nursing service in …

… A growing body of evidence has shown that early specialised palliative care (EPC) is
associated with improvement in quality of life, satisfaction with care, symptom burden and, in some …

… Embedding palliative care principles early in patients’ disease trajectories within acute care
… How to best understand the experiences of those providing non-specialist palliative care in …

… specialist palliative care refers to teams of palliative care clinical nurse specialists with palliative
medicine specialist support… They can visit patients in their own homes as well as provide …