Research reports

In March 2016 there was a short debate in the House of Commons on end of life care. We welcomed the debate and submitted this briefing on it.

How to ensure people’s decisions are respected at the end of life

Lessons from an end-of-life helpline.

Findings from focus groups with older people.

We partnered with Subco Trust and the University of Bristol’s Good Grief Connects project to co-produce advance care planning workshops for South Asian elders.

A pilot project for people with a serious or terminal diagnosis.

A report which examines whether patients had record, or made known, their wishes recorded and if this impacted on whether they died well or badly.

A poll commissioned by Compassion in Dying examining how people want to be treated at the end of life, and looking at people’s knowledge of their end-of-life rights and choices.

We commissioned a YouGov poll which found that 82% of people would want to be in control of life-prolonging medical treatments should they lose mental capacity.

We conducted a poll with YouGov on knowledge of end of life rights and choices. This poll found that 53% wrongly believed that they had a legal right to make end-of-life decisions on behalf of their next of kin.