Our response to CQC end of life care review
Usha Grieve, Director of Partnerships & Information responds to today’s publication of A different ending: End of life care review by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Usha Grieve, Director of Partnerships & Information responds to today’s publication of A different ending: End of life care review by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
This conference will support your service to ensure the clinical guideline is implemented effectively in your organisation to improve end of life care, outcomes and experience for dying people and their families.
Chaired by Claire Henry Chief Executive of The National Council for Palliative Care this conference will support your service to ensure the clinical guideline is implemented effectively in your organisation to improve end of life care, outcomes and experience for dying people and their families.
Healthcare professionals of all levels need to have an understanding of the legal and ethical framework that surrounds the care and treatment of patients who are nearing the end of the their lives. This understanding should include the use of DNACPR orders, the implications of withholding and withdrawing life sustaining treatment, advance decisions and the role of the Court of Protection.
This week, Janet Ross (Project Coordinator for My Life, My Decision in Lancashire) tells us what a day at work looks like for her.
The upcoming Improving End-of-Life Care Conference focuses on improving end of life care and delivering the ambitions of this forward looking strategy at a local level.
Who we are: ensure carers understand your true identity by recording what is important to you in an Advance Statement
The upcoming Improving End-of-Life Care Conference focuses on improving end of life care and delivering the ambitions of this forward looking strategy at a local level.
Today the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has published a report, Dying without Dignity based on complaints investigated by the Ombudsman. The report concludes that thousands of dying patients are being let down by poor end-of-life care provision in England.
The end of our lives is something we often don’t want to think about, let alone talk about. However, next week 18th-24th May 2015 Dying Matters are holding their annual awareness week about end-of-life rights and choices. My Life, My Decision will be holding events all over the country as part of the week.
