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NCPC publishes a range of titles which can help you develop and implement your palliative care strategies, support clinical governance and offer guidance on clinical and ethical issues.
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Recent Publications
This examines the need for stronger partnerships between dementia care and palliative care services to bring about improved care for people with dementia at the end of life. It explores what these partnerships need to reflect on and provides examples of tools to support practice when caring for somebody with advanced dementia at the end of life, including some to help identify the point of at which patients have a need for greater palliative care. It also makes recommendations as to what’s required from dementia care services and from palliative care services, and gives examples of partnerships already underway. Informed by the latest research and policy on palliative and dementia care, and written by experts from a range of clinical and policy backgrounds, it aims to encourage wider discussion on this complex but extremely important area of care.
December 2009 (A4, 36 pages) Price £15.00 ISBN 978-1-898915-76-8
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Benchmarking Analysis: Need Resourcing Outputs & Outcomes of Palliative and End of Life Care builds on our data analysis and assessment work. It is a preliminary analysis benchmarking of the financial resources available from both the NHS and voluntary sector sources against differential population need. Benchmarking of available resources against the indices of need can contribute to judgements about how well the availability of financial resources matches differential population need. It includes sections on institutional care (i.e. in hospices hospitals and specialist palliative care services in care homes). Headline data is presented at SHA level.
December 2009. Peter Tebbit. A4, 28 pages, Price £10.00. ISBN: 978-1-898915-75-1
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August 2009. To download this publication, click here.
Briefing 17 reports on the initial findings from a survey of doctors which was commissioned by a collaborative of national charities with an interest in end of life care, brought together by NCPC. The survey asked doctors about decisions they had made about the provision, withdrawing or withholding of treatment at the end of life. It also contained questions about doctors’ attitudes to the legalisation of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia
June 2009. £5.00. To buy this publication, click here.
The Minimum Data Sets are the National Survey of Patient Activity Data for Specialist Palliative Care Services. The survey celebrates its 13th year and continues to be a key source of information on NHS and voluntary sector services. The Minimum Data Sets are the UK’s only continuous source of data from both NHS and voluntary sector palliative care services.
January 2009, 8 Pages. £7.00. To buy this publication click here.
This publication is the culmination of over two years work looking specifically at the palliative and end of life care needs of people with dementia. It brings together current understanding of the issues and challenges and it is informed by people with dementia and their carers about their needs. Solutions identified through the project, including local practice examples, are included to support service development. The key findings of the publication are mapped against the nationally recommended pathway from the End of Life Care Strategy in England (EoLCS) to help integrate policy and practice.
February 2009, 44 Pages. £20.00. To buy this publication click here.
This summary guidance is intended to help patients and informal carers as well as health and social care staff in all settings, for example care homes, hospitals, hospices and primary care. Its aim is to introduce people to the MCA and its contents, to explain its importance for end of life care decision-making, and to provide a signpost to sources of further guidance and support. It also explains how the MCA can be used to identify and respect people’s choices about their future care, and to improve the quality of end of life care decisionmaking.
Simon Chapman
January 2009, ISBN 1898 915 71 3, 20 pages, Price £5.00
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Chronic respiratory diseases (CRD) account for a significant number of UK deaths and are set to become the fourth leading cause of death worldwide by 2030. This new NCPC publication considers some of the implications for palliative and end of life care services, drawing from a wide range of innovative practice examples and recent policy. It includes a representation of the End of Life Care pathway mapping out some of the priorities for working with people CRD, which will be of use to both service providers and commissioners.
November 2008, 36 Pages. £15.00. To buy this publication click here.
This guidance is designed to support implementation of the End of Life Care Strategy, Putting People First’s person
alisation agenda and the NHS Next Stage Review and associated care pathways, for older people with multiple conditions at
the end of life.
October 2008, 24 Pages. £15.00. To buy this publication click here.
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The Power of Partnership: Palliative Care in Dementia