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End of Life Care Strategy - promoting high quality care for all adults at the end of life

The Government has published the End of Life Care Strategy - promoting high quality care for all adults at the end of life which is the first for the UK and covers adults in England. Its aim is to provide people approaching the end of life with more choice about where they would like to live and die. It encompasses all adults with advanced, progressive illness and care given in all settings. The strategy has been developed by an expert advisory board chaired by Professor Mike Richards, National Cancer Director, and including key stakeholders from statutory health, social care, third sector organisations, professional and academic organisations. The strategy has been informed and shaped by the work on end of life care undertaken by strategic health authorities for the NHS Next Stage Review.

• Download End of Life Care Strategy - promoting high quality care for all adults at the end of life (PDF, 781K)
• Download executive summary (PDF, 190K)
• Download What the End of Life Care Strategy means for patients and carers (PDF, 179K)
• Download impact assessment (PDF, 646K)
• Download equality impact assessment (PDF, 1677K)
• Download results of the survey of PCT expenditure on specialist palliative care in 2006-07 (PDF, 278K)
• Download appendix 1 (questionnaire) to the results of the survey of PCT expenditure on specialist palliative care in 2006-07 (PDF, 36K)
• Download appendix 2 (data) to the results of the survey of PCT expenditure on specialist palliative care in 2006-07 (XLS, 374K)
• Download bibliography (PDF, 1682K)
• Download list of End of Life Care Strategy advisory board and working group members (PDF, 296K)
• Download presentation in PowerPoint (PPT, 145K)
• Download presentation in Portable Document Format (PDF, 109K)
• Press release: £286m to improve end of life care for all (opens new window)