Background: In order to provide responsive, individualised and personalised care, there is
now greater engagement with patients, families and carers in designing health services. Out …

Background Children with life-limiting conditions often have complex needs, making it
challenging for services to provide satisfactory care. Few studies consider whether services …

Background: Understanding service provision for patients with advanced disease is a
research priority, with a need to identify barriers that limit widespread integration of palliative …

Background: Specialist palliative care services have various configurations of staff,
processes and interventions, which determine how care is delivered. Currently, there is no …

Background: Palliative care is characterised by heterogeneous patient and caregiver
populations who are provided care in different health systems and a research base …

Background: Prioritisation of end-of-life care by policymakers has been the subject of
extensive rhetoric, but little scrutiny. In England, responsibility for improving health and care …

Background Current guidelines recommend palliative care based on individual needs for
patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. However, patients with interstitial lung disease …

Objectives Little is known about the cost of a palliative care approach in the UK, and there is
an absence of robust activity and unit cost data. The aim of this study was to review evidence …

Care homes care for people with complex needs, supporting them to the end of life and are
now being seen as the 'de facto'hospice. Reflective debriefing for care home staff has been …

Introduction Provision of palliative care is inequitable with wide variations across conditions
and settings in the UK. Lack of a standard way to classify by case complexity is one of the …