Introduction The rising global prevalence of cancer reveals significant regional disparities in palliative care adoption. While some countries have incorporated palliative care into their systems, ...

Background More than half of patients with a terminal diagnosis want to die at home. NICE recommend provision of injectable anticipatory medications as a way of managing symptoms and facilitating this ...

Background St Oswald’s Hospice strives to ensure high standards of communication and documentation after death, in line with Hospice UK’s Care after Death guidance, to support bereaved relatives, meet ...

Bloom CI, Slaich B, Morales DR, et al . Eur Respir J 2018;14:51. An open cohort study of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using electronic healthcare records in the UK was ...

Objectives Most clinical teams and organisations have not openly or formally discussed how they would react if physician-assisted suicide were to be legalised. This paper aims to discuss some of the ...

Background Palliative sedation for existential suffering (PS-ES) is a controversial clinical intervention. Empirical studies about physicians’ perceptions do not converge in a clear position and ...