• Nursing times · Aug 2010

    Improving integrated team working to support people to die in the place of their choice.

    • Ben Bowers, Sarah Roderick, and Sally Arnold.
    • Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust. bbowers@nhs.net
    • Nurs Times. 2010 Aug 17;106(32):14-6.

    AbstractDying in a place of one's choice is considered to be a quantifiable measure of the effectiveness of end of life services in primary care. Although most people say they would prefer to die in their own home, very few actually do so. This article looks at how a team of community nurses and GPs changed their practice by using recognised end of life care tools. These helped practitioners in supporting adults with terminal illnesses to die in a place of their choice. A subsequent audit of patients' actual place of death against their preferred place demonstrates how working in more integrated ways has helped.

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