How to extend palliative care services to all patients needing them is an issue currently
exercising a range of bodies in contemporary Britain. This paper first considers the evidence …

This paper describes a study that sought to identify service providers' and commissioners'
understanding of specialist palliative care within the context of changing service provision in …

This book addresses key questions about the need for palliative care, the current provision
of services, and the evidence for the effectiveness of a range of alternative models of …

Background: the right for patients of all diagnoses to be in receipt of palliative care from an
early point in the diagnosis of a life-limiting condition is now enshrined in policy in a number …

The objective of this study was to investigate how many patients who die from causes other
than cancer might benefit from specialist palliative care. This was achieved by secondary …

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Our aims were to determine the extent of coverage by designated palliative care services of
the population of terminally ill cancer patients in South Australia, and to identify the types of …

Palliative and supportive care differ in philosophy from curative strategies in focusing
primarily on the consequences of a disease rather than its cause or specific cure …

The emergence of the speciality of palliative medicine in the UK has been generally
welcomed and can be seen as a continuation of the attempts to improve the care of dying …

Palliative care arose out of the change from acute to chronic causes of death and the
emphasis of health care on improving quality of life. In the United Kingdom, specialist …