End of life care

Within the research group of the Nuffield Trust we have a number of studies that use the anonymised linkage of health and social care records. The results of one study are due to be published in the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy (JHSRP) soon but they have left us with a puzzle.

We found that from a population of older people (aged 75+) in four local authority areas, 14 per cent used some form of local authority social care over a one year...

Last week saw the publication of the findings from the independent review of palliative care funding led by Tom Hughes-Hallet. 

Here at the Nuffield Trust we have been doing work around social care use at the end of life and it is nice to see that work being used by the report team.

We are also about to publish some work looking at the variation in hospital use in the last 12 months of life. One of the observations from this research is that to change the system you...

At the Nuffield Trust we have just published a report that uses routine information to offer a new perspective on care services at the end of life.  We were aware of the importance of end of life care, both in terms of problems in the quality of services and the costs of these services.  We also know it’s an area where there is limited information yet a lot of national interest.

Following a meeting with Mike Richards, the National Clinical Director for End of Life Care, and the National End of Life Care Programme team, it became clear...