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The impact of the Marie Curie Nursing Service on place of death and hospital use at the end of life
— research report | | Author(s) | Xavier Chitnis, Theo Georghiou, Adam Stevenson |
| Corporate Author | Nuffield Trust; Marie Curie Cancer Care |
| Publisher | Nuffield Trust, London, November 2012 |
| Pages | 62 pp (Evidence for better health care) |
| Source | The Nuffield Trust, 59 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP. Website: http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk |
| Keywords | Home nursing ; Terminal care ; Cancer ; Death ; Hospital services ; Usage [services] ; Reports. |
| Annotation | Although most people would prefer to die at home, more than half of all deaths in England and Wales are in hospital. The Marie Curie Nursing Service (MCNS) provides home-based end-of-life care to around 28,000 people at the end of life in the UK every year. Marie Curie Cancer Care commissioned the Nuffield Trust to evaluate the effect of its end of life home-based nursing service, by racking the experiences of more tha 29.000 people who received care from MCNS, comparing their outcomes to a "control" group of end of life patients with similar circumstances who had not received care from Marie Curie. This report outlines the study's methods and results. It found that whereas 76.7% of those who received MCNS care died at home and only 7.7% died in hospital, 35% of the "controls" died at home and 41.6% died in hospital. The report also presents results concerning the effect of the MCNS on hospital use and the impact of the service on hospital costs. There is evidence that home-based nursing care can reduce hospital use at the end of life and help more people to die at home. In a difficult financial climate, there is a compelling case for service models other than hospital care in the last stages of life. This report is also available as a download (http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/publications/marie... (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130108001 B |
| Classmark | N4: LV: CK: CW: LD: QLD: 6K |
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