NHS Lanarkshire (2012) made palliative care one of its four strategic priorities for A Healthier Future.
What kind of future does a patient have who is being provided with palliative care, when this is end-of-life care? The rest of the document outlining their strategy for palliative care is depressingly full of the same management spin.
What it amounts to is encouraging practitioners to have those `senstivie` conversations with patients and family about preferred place of dying (home/care-home). Document and share the anticipated responses after they have had those `sensitive conversations`. (Wasn`t our fault - it was their choice) Assist the target population to remain in their home/care-home. Avoid hospital admissions, emergency and curative treatments and REDUCE COSTS.
http://www.nhslanarkshire.org.uk/boards/2013-board-papers/Documents/August/Palliative-Care-Strategy-2013--August-2013-Board.pdf
Please note that hospitals are not always safe places for the elderly, but where is?
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