OUR AIM: To improve the quality of care at the end of life for all patients and enable more patients to live and die in the place of their choice.
Following the publication of 'Building on the Best, Choice Responsiveness and Equity in the NHS' (December 2003), it was shown that patients and carers want choice over care at the end of life. This has been reinforced in the consultation document 'Your health, your care, your say'.
In 'Our Health, our care, our say' (February 2006), the government recognised the need for additional investment to improve end of life care and the need for proper training to look after dying patients and their carers. This will mean extending the roll out of the end of life care tools to cover the whole of the country.
The NHS End of Life Care (EoLC) Programme was set up to improve care at the end of life for all wherever they live. This site aims to support you by sharing good practice, resources and information and provides commissioned End of Life Care publications to support the programme.
If you have any comments about the site please use the "Feedback" option in the menu bar above, or for further information, email: information@eolc.nhs.uk or write to: NHS End of Life Care Programme, 3rd Floor, St John's House, East Street, Leicester LE1 6NB
