Background: Public health and palliative care are both broad disciplines with blurred
boundaries. There is growing support for an alignment of palliative care to public health …

Objectives This study explored the views and perceptions of haematologists towards
palliative care, based on their own clinical experiences, focusing on those factors that …

Objective: Despite being ideally placed to provide care to patients with terminal illness,
many general practitioners (GPs) are not involved in palliative care. This study aimed to …

Australia is leading the way in establishing a national system (the Palliative Care Outcomes
Collaboration–PCOC) to measure the outcomes and quality of specialist palliative care …

BACKGROUND: Relatively little is known about patients' perceptions of the work and role of
the specialist palliative care nurse. Understanding the patients' perspective can help to …

The Gold Standards Framework (GSF) seeks to facilitate consistent and high quality
community palliative care through a set of guidelines, mechanisms and assessment tools …

From 19th century roots, palliative care developed in the later part of the 20th century as a
social movement and medical specialty. Dr Cicely Saunders was central to its modern …

There has been limited research into the scope or standards of specialist palliative care
nursing practice in an Australian context. This study sought to develop a competency …

The Gold Standards Framework (GSF) has been widely adopted within UK general
practices, yet there is little understanding of its impact on the provision of community …

Introduction Public health palliative care is a term that can be used to encompass a variety of
approaches that involve working with communities to improve people's experience of death …