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The NCPC's currently available publications are as below. For alphabetical index of these publications, click here.

Subscribers can click here to access the password protected section of the site to download NCPC publications.

Ethical Issues

Advanced Care Planning: A Guide for Health and Social Care Staff

Artificial Nutrition and Hydration - Guidance in End of Life Care for Adults

Artificial Nutrition and Hydration - Summary Guidance

Guidance on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (October 2005)

Priorities and Preferences for End of Life Care in England, Wales and Scotland

The Mental Capacity Act in Practice: Guidance for End of Life Care

Vital Judgements: Ethical Decision Making at the End of Life

Clinical Guidelines

Changing Gear - Guidelines for Managing the Last Days of Life in Adults - Reviewed and Updated Nov 2006

Changing Gear: Guidelines for Managing the Last days of Life in Cancer - The Research Evidence 1997

Guidance for Managing Cancer Pain in Adults (3rd Edition)

Quality in Palliative Care

Listening to the Experts: A Summary of User Involvement in Palliative Care - A Scoping Study

Listening to Users – Helping Professionals Address User Involvement in Palliative Care

Making Palliative Care Better: Quality Improvement, Multiprofessional Audit and Standards

Palliative Care in Care Homes for Older People

The Essence of Palliative Care - A Personal Perspective by Derek Doyle

Turning Theory into Practice: Practical Clinical Governance for Voluntary Hospices

Commissioning and Provision of Palliative Care

Building on Firm Foundations: Improving End of Life Care in Care Homes

Capacity to Care: A Data Analysis and Discussion of the Capacity and Function of Care Homes as Providers of End of Life Care

Ethnicity, Older People and Palliative Care

Exploring Non Medical Prescribing in Palliative Care

Feeling Better: Psychosocial Care in Specialist Palliative Care

Focus on Cancer - The Distinctive Characteristics of Cancer

Focus On Commissioning - End of Life Care: A Commissioning Perspective

Fulfilling Lives: Rehabilitation in Palliative Care

Opening Doors: Improving Access to Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Services by Members of the Black & Ethnic Minority Communities

Palliative Care 2000: Commissioning through Partnership

Palliative Care in the Hospital Setting

Palliative Care Services for Different Ethnic Groups

Population Based Needs Assessment for Palliative and End of Life Care: Compendium of Data for SHAs and PCTs - May 2008

Positive Partnerships: Palliative Care for Adults with Severe Mental Health Problems

Reaching Out: Specialist Palliative Care for Adults with Non-Malignant Diseases

Response to the Department of Health Consultation on Options for the Future of Payment by Results

Response to the Department of Health Consultation on the Commissioning Framework for Health and Well Being

Supporting Bereaved Students in Primary and Secondary Schools

Wider Horizons: Care of the Dying in a Multicultural Society

Policy

20:20 Vision - The Shape of the future of Palliative Care

Creative Partnerships: Improving Quality of Life at the End of Life for People with Dementia - A Compendium

Exploring Palliative Care for People with Dementia - A Discussion Document

Exploring the Interface: A Survey of Neurology Nurses' Involvement with Specialist Palliative Care Services and Identification of their Training Needs

Focus On Care Homes - Improving palliative care provision for older people in care homes

Focus On Heart Failure - A National Survey of Heart Failure Nurses & Their Involvement with Palliative Care Services

Focus on Neurology - Addressing Palliative Care for People with Neurological Conditions

Focus On Policy - Branching Out

Introductory Guide to End of Life Care in Care Homes

Minimum Data Sets (MDS) Project Update including 2006/07 data - Briefing

National Survey: Neurological Conditions

NCPC's Response to the 'Your Health Your Care Your Say' Consultation

Palliative Care Manifesto

Progress with Dementia - Moving Forward: Addressing Palliative Care for People with Dementia

Briefing Bulletins

The NCPC produce regular, topical Briefing Bulletins providing information on key policy and clinical developments in palliative care. Briefing Bulletins cost £5.00 per copy.

Briefing Bulletin 14 – Palliative Care Needs of Older People

(January 2006) To buy this publication, click here.

Briefing Bulletin 15– The Funding Reality for 2006/07

(November 2006) To buy this publication, click here.

 

 


   
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