Palliative Care

Hospices have been in existence for centuries as religious and charitable establishments that would take care of the terminally ill. The modern hospice movement began in 1967 when Dr Cicely [...]

This NICE key therapeutic topic was updated in February 2018 and summarises the evidence base on medicines optimisation in long-term pain, in order that the right medication is being used for [...]

This quality standard was published in March 2017 and covers adult patients who are dying, during the last few days of their life. It does not cover care for dying patients before the last few [...]

The modern hospice movement has improved the quality of palliative care greatly over the past 50 years and has helped with the research and education in its field. It has achieved this by [...]

It is now 26 years since the then Health Secretary, Virginia Bottomley, successfully argued in favour of providing hospices with a prescribing budget, instead of using NHS prescriptions to obtain [...]

Palliative care can provide great comfort to patients suffering from a terminal illness, and also their families. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines palliative care as “an approach that [...]