Objectives Patients with chronic respiratory disease have significant palliative care needs,
but low utilisation of specialist palliative care (SPC) services. Decreased access to SPC …

Objectives: To describe the feasibility of a chaplain-led spiritually focused life review
interview and the development of a spiritual legacy document (SLD) for patients with …

Introduction Primary care has a central role in palliative and end of life care: 45.6% of deaths
in England and Wales occur under the care of primary care teams at home or in care homes …

Objective People with advanced cancer who may benefit from specialised palliative care
(SPC) do not necessarily access such services. Methods To obtain a deeper understanding …

Background: Ethnic minority patients have unique challenges in accessing health services.
These include language difficulties, unfamiliarity with the health system, lower rates of …

Background: Defining whether people with life-limiting illnesses (PLLI) who do not access
specialized palliative care services (SPCS) have unmet needs is crucial in planning and …

In the context of an increased national policy focus on the development of palliative and end
of life care services the post of a GP with a special interest in palliative medicine (GPSI) was …

Five key areas ripe for development in palliative care were highlighted at the UK Palliative
Care Congress in Bournemouth in March 2010 by members of the Primary Palliative Care …

There is no single or clear definition of specialist palliative care (Pastrana et al., 2008). The
World Health Organization (2020) detrol problems. fines palliative care as 'an approach that …

Background: General practitioners have always been involved in providing palliative care.
As Australia's population ages, the number of patients living with cancer and end stage …