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Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Communication Failures in Hospital End-of-Life Care (BBC News / RCP)

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The latest Royal College of Physicians (RCP) audit has estimated that one in five families may not be consulted when hospital staff decide not to revive their relatives and issue “Do Not Resuscitate” (DNR) orders. “Guidelines issued by the … Continue reading →

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Further Room For Improvements in End of Life Care (BBC News / RCP)

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary End of life care in the UK has previously been assessed to be possibly the best in the world, but a Royal College of Physicians audit report identifies local variations in the quality of hospital care for the dying. Full … Continue reading →

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New End of Life Care Guideline (BBC News / NICE)

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a new guideline on individualised end of life care, to replace the widely discredited Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) which was phased-out in 2014. This fresh guideline advocates a … Continue reading →

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Improvements to Care in the Last Days / Hours of Life (Department of Health)

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This report assesses progress made against commitments in the “One Chance to Get it Right” report, which was released just over a year ago as a response to the Independent Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) on improving … Continue reading →

NICE Consultation on Draft Guidelines for Care of the Dying Adult (BBC News / NICE)

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released draft guidelines concerning the care of adults potentially entering the last days of their lives while in the care of the NHS. The guideline covers people dying from … Continue reading →

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Costs of Hospital and Non-Hospital Care at the End of Life (Nuffield Trust)

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A Nuffield Trust report indicates that enabling people to die in their own homes need not necessarily cost more providing end-of-life care in hospital. The Marie Curie nursing service is taken as a case study, to show that additional … Continue reading →

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RCP Audit of End-of-Life Care in Hospitals (BBC News / RCP)

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A joint Royal College of Physicians and Marie Curie review of end-of-life care in hospitals has discovered that only one fifth of hospitals provided specialist end-of-life care seven days a week. The same audit highlights deep concerns about the … Continue reading →

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