Nuffield Trust report on end of life care
30th May 2022
Cicely Saunders International welcomes a new report from the Nuffield Trust and Help the Hospices highlighting the vital role of hospices during Covid-19 and signposting the need for new data, monitoring and research. The report chimes with the aims of CS International’s Action Plan for Palliative Care: You Matter Because you are You and includes references to prior work supported by CS International such as population-based projections of place of death; local preferences and place of death in England; impact of population ageing on future provision of palliative care; dying at home during the pandemic and service innovations during covid-19.
Professor Irene Higginson, Scientific Director of Cicely Saunders International said:
“We welcome the excellent report from the Nuffield and Help the Hospices. The report’s conclusions strongly endorse our 7-point action plan, particularly the need to embed research into practice to ensure that that high quality palliative care and the services needed to deliver it are available to everyone.”