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Shared care: hospital, hospice, home

01 July 2003

Paediatric Nursing

General

Provision of seamless care that meets the needs of children requiring palliative care and their families requires a multidisciplinary approach. All professionals...

The first Diana Team in Wales: an update

01 March 2002

Paediatric Nursing

General

As a memorial to the life and work of Diana, Princess of Wales, the Treasury made over £4 million available to fund a network of Diana Community Nursing teams within...

Managing stress in a palliative care team

07 December 2010

Paediatric Nursing

General

This article describes a strategy to reduce the high levels of stress experienced by community nurses in a children’s palliative care team. The development, use and...

Scotland’s palliative care nursing boost

05 December 2008

Primary Health Care

General

Marie Curie Cancer Care has been working closely with NHS Lanarkshire for a number of years. During this time, a solid partnership has developed, as has a strong...

Investing in our future: end-of-life care and primary care

01 May 2009

Primary Health Care

General

The End of Life Care Strategy and Lord Darzi’s next stage review are still in the initial stages of implementation but local developments are already taking place....

End-of-Iife care for patients with dementia

01 March 2008

Nursing Older People

Care

Studies have shown that people with dementia receive sub-optimal end-of-life care (McCarthy et al, 1997; Morrison and Siu 2000; Mitchell et al, 2004). The National...

How an extended palliative care service has benefited patients

13 September 2012

Cancer Nursing Practice

A&S Science

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2004) guidance for improving supportive and palliative care for adults with cancer identified a need for...

Dilemmas in managing patients with cancer of unknown primary

02 October 2009

Cancer Nursing Practice

Feature

Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is one of the ten most common cancer diagnoses in the UK. Since publication of the NHS Cancer Plan (Department of Health 2000),...

Good practice in helping clients cope with terminal illness

01 July 2013

Learning Disability Practice

Art & Science

The Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities reviewed the deaths over a two-year period of all people with learning...

Partnership working between hospice and children’s community nursing teams

08 November 2016

Nursing Children and Young People

Evidence & practice

This article describes the implementation and evaluation of a new partnership between a children’s hospice service and an NHS children’s community nursing team to...