Guidance

Choice in end of life care: government progress

How the National End of Life Care Programme Board is delivering personalisation and choice in care for people at or near the end of life.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care and Jackie Doyle-Price
• Published: 21 September 2017

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Documents

One year on: the government response to the review of choice in end of life care

PDF, 455 KB, 24 pages

Details

This report sets out the progress the National End of Life Care Programme Board has made in implementing the government’s choice commitment.

The measures include:

• supporting the roll-out of digital palliative and end of life care records to all areas by 2020
• inspecting and rating NHS hospital and community services for end of life care
• providing support to trusts to help them improve end of life care services
• testing personal health budgets for people approaching the end of life to give them choice and control over their care
• developing metrics to assess quality and experience in end of life care
• working to change the nursing and medical undergraduate and postgraduate curricula to improve patient choice and quality of care

Published 21 September 2017