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 …

Aim To explore specialist and generalist palliative care provision for people with non‐
malignant respiratory disease, in rural and urban areas in the North and Republic of Ireland …

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Various methods of delivering specialist palliative care to rural
areas have been discussed in the literature, but published evaluations of these models are …

Background: The cognitive and communication challenges experienced by people with
intellectual disability present difficulties for health professionals, particularly in the face of …

ABSTRACT AIM: Professional supervision (PS), a collaborative relationship that promotes
reflection on contextualised work-related issues for the benefit of ongoing learning and …

Background: Consumer experience of palliative care has been inconsistently and selectively
investigated. Methods: People in Western Australia who had experienced a life limiting …

Objectives Some failures in end-of-life care have been attributed to inconsistent provision of
palliative care across England. We aimed to explore the variation in commissioning of …

Aim: The purpose of this study, which was part of a large national case study of nurse
practitioner (NP) integration in long-term care (LTC), was to explore the NP role in providing …

With an increasing elderly population, estimated to rise to 26% of the UK's total population
by 2020 (World Health Organization (WHO), 2004), this demographic represents a large …

Speech-language pathologists working with adults across the continuum of care from acute
sub-acute hospitals to in home community services and nursing homes frequently encounter …