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Last modified date:16 July 2008
Background information, guidance and other useful publications.
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Background to end of life care strategy
- 7 February 2008: Survey of expenditure by primary care trusts on hospice/specialist palliative care services for the year 2006/07
- 15 November 2007: Letter from Professor Mike Richards, Chair of End of Life Care Strategy Advisory Board, about the progress being made in developing a strategy
- 24 April 2007: Operating framework 2007/08: PCT baseline review of services for end of life care
- 8 February 2007: Letter from Professor Mike Richards, Chair of End of Life Care Strategy Advisory Board, about the progress being made in developing a strategy
- 26 January 2007: Press release - End of Life Care Strategy Board members named (opens new window)
- 27 July 2006: Press release - Better end of life care for patients - Government announces strategy to improve end of life care (opens new window)
- Download list of End of Life Care Strategy Advisory Board and Working Group members (PDF, 296K)
Education and support for district nurses
- Evaluation of the Department of Health programme to train district nurses in palliative care
- Download Conference report March 2004: Education and support for district nurses in the principles and practice of palliative care (PDF, 28K)
- Download June 2004 report on initiatives funded under this programme (PDF, 23K)
Hospice and palliative care
- Evaluation of the Department of Health programme to train district nurses in palliative care
- 8 June 2007: National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC) and the NHS End of Life Care Programme: examples of innovative practice to help care homes learn from each other’s practice to improve end of life care (Building on firm foundations) (opens new window)
- Government response to the House of Commons Health Committee report on palliative care
- Q and A: Hospice funding issues
Other useful/recent documents
- Better Care, Better Lives (strategy covering palliative care for children)
- The NHS in England: the operating framework for 2008/9
- The NHS in England: operating framework for 2007-08
- Building on the best: Choice, responsiveness and equity in the NHS
- Marie Curie Cancer Care given further funding to deliver end of life care – (press release, July 2008) (opens new window)
- National funding for local hospices (press release, April 2007) (opens new window)
Links to relevant websites
NICE guidance
National Service Frameworks
NSFs set national standards and identify key interventions for a defined service or care group; put in place strategies to support implementation; establish ways to ensure progress within an agreed time scale and form one of a range of measures to raise quality and decrease variations in service. A number of NSFs include guidance on end of life care.
Older documents
Please note: the contents of these documents may have been superseded by subsequent policy developments.
- Download 2004 conference report: Education and support for district nurses in the principles and practice of palliative care (PDF, 28K)
- Download event evaluation report, June 2004: Celebrating the success of the programme - Education and support for district and community nurses in the principles and practice of palliative care (PDF, 23K)
- The nursing contribution to cancer care
- Download Palliative care investment plans: core messages from a review by a subgroup of the National Partnership for Palliative Care, April 2003 (PDF, 26K)
- Planning and Funding Specialist Palliative Care Provision 2003/04 - 2005/06
- NHS cancer plan: education and support for district and community nurses in the principles and practice of palliative care education initiatives funded under this programme, July 2001
- NHS cancer plan: education and support for district and community nurses in the principles and practice of palliative care, April 2001
- Information for the palliative care sector
- Download report on the implications of Agenda for Change on voluntary sector hospices (PDF, 190K)
- Help the Hospices: Agenda for Change toolkit (opens new window)
- NICE supportive and palliative care pages (opens new window)
- NOF palliative care pages (opens new window)
- The NHS cancer plan sharing our practice
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