The long-awaited, first ever End of Life Care Strategy was launched in England last month (Department of Health (DH), 2008). It is a major, government-funded initiative that sets out a comprehensive framework for caring for people, with dignity and respect, at the end of their lives. It...
A key emphasis is on enabling participation in care planning both during and in advance of any illness, and taking into account the individual's values and preferences. In England, a National End-of-Life Care Strategy (DoH, 2008) advocates the development of approaches to raising public ...
The End of Life Care Strategy (Department of Health, 2008) stresses the importance of education for all healthcare professionals in the delivery of care in... Heals,Denise - 《International Journal of Palliative Nursing》 被引量: 36发表: 2008年 Improving the Quality of End-of-Life Care in ...
Serving one of the oldest populations in the UK, with people over 85 being 10% more likely to have an acute admission ending in death, a consistent approach, strategy and pathway for end of life care were needed. Aims To develop a centralised, single point of access for patients, their ...
The End-of-Life Care Strategy (DH 2008), Quality Standards for End-of-Life Care for Adults (NICE 2013) and One Chance to Get it Right (LACDP 2014), expect nurses to provide compassionate care with sensitive communication to the dying and... Hawkins,S Anna 被引量: 0发表: 2016年 Study...
Truog RD, Campbell ML, Curtis JR, Haas CE, Luce JM, Rubenfeld GD, et al. Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: a consensus statement by the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Crit Care Med. 2008;36(3):953–63. ...
The 2008 National End of Life Care Strategy highlighted that, when asked, most people would prefer to die at home.4 Perversely, the structure of our health service and patient expectations of modern medicine dictate that hospital admission is now the norm. Many people have multiple admissions to...
The underlying reason for this mismatch is that health and social care services struggle to respond satisfactorily to people's varying end of life care needs. The creation of the National End of Life Care Programme in 2004(1) and the launch of the End of Life Care Strategy in 2008(2) ...
Riggs,G - 《Academic Medicine Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges》 被引量: 15发表: 1997年 The Supportive Care Plan: a tool to improve communication in end-of-life care. The End of Life Care Strategy (Department of Health, 2008a) states that acute hospitals need mechanis...
Since the Department of Health (2008) published the national end-of-life care strategy for England, several tools and guides have been produced to improve ... A Hayes - 《Nursing Times》 被引量: 0发表: 2012年 A practical guide to improving end-of-life care Since the Department of Health...