Clinical management - end-of-life care
Norfolk county council's interview-based report on death and dying makes difficult reading. And, although it highlights widespread palliative care failings, encouraging progress is being made. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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The NHS Confederation’s ‘Improving End of Life Care’ briefing report will be available from the end of November.

NHS End of Life Care Programme

When a patient dies: advice on developing bereavement services in the NHS
Department of Health guidance, October 2005

An overview of the Gold Standards Framework programme for community palliative care [PDF]

Templates and supporting documentation to Birmingham and The Black Country strategic health authority’s Gold Standards Framework programme [PDF]

Details on the Preferred Place of Care Plan
The PPC is designed as a patient-held record that will follow the patient through their path of care into the variety of differing health and social care settings.

Information on the Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying patient
The pathway has been developed to transfer the hospice model of care into other care settings.