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National End of Life Care Intelligence Network
— what we know now 2014 | | Corporate Author | National End of Life Care Intelligence Network, Public Health England |
| Publisher | Public Health England, London, 2015 |
| Pages | 55 pp |
| Source | Download at: http://www.endoflifecare-intelligence.org.uk/resou... |
| Keywords | Death ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Consumer choice ; Research Reviews ; England. |
| Annotation | Public Health England's National End of Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN) works with partner organisations to collect, analyse and present end of life care intelligence from a wide variety of sources. This report summarises the key findings of the Network and its partners during 2014 on five main themes: trends and attitudes to death, dying and society; care delivery and preferences for place of care; care in different settings; support for carers and families; and the end of life care workforce. Among the findings are that: the proportion of people dying at home or in care homes continues to increase; patients with an Electronic Palliative Care Co-ordination System (EPaCCS) record and those receiving palliative care services such as hospice at home, Gold Standards Framework or Macmillan services are more likely to die in the place of their preference; two in five people with dementia die in hospital, indicating that the trend towards increasing hospital deaths for people living with dementia has reversed. The factors most importance to people at the end of their life were: having pain and other symptoms managed effectively; being surrounded by loved ones; and being treated with dignity. More general practitioners (GPs) are having conversations with people about their end of life care wishes; but 25% still say they have never initiated such a conversation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150724005 E |
| Classmark | CW: CX: LV: WYC: 3A:6KC: 82 |
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