Introduction The Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) process encourages early conversations with patients and their loved ones to agree, document and share care and ...

Background Emergency departments (EDs) are under unprecedented pressure due to multiple factors including: a rising and ageing population; rising bed occupancy in hospitals; reduced capacity in social ...

Background ReSPECT (Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment) is a national form developed by the Resuscitation Council to support care planning. ReSPECT is a process that creates ...

Correspondence to Josie Dixon, Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK; j.e.dixon{at}lse.ac.uk Objectives ...

Background 15%–20% of critical care patients die during their hospital admission. This service evaluation assesses quality of palliative care in intensive care units (ICUs) compared with national ...

Correspondence to Professor Ruth Kleinpell, Rush University Medical Center and Rush University College of Nursing, 600 S. Paulina Avenue, 1062B AAC, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; ...

Objective Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is widely used in the management of acute and acute-on-chronic respiratory failure. Understanding the experiences of patients treated with NIV is critical to ...

Introduction Marie Curie REACT (responsive emergency assessment and community team) provides acute palliative care to patients in crisis via a virtual palliative care ward with ED in-reach. It aims to ...

Introduction The percentage of people with a key information summary (KIS) or an anticipatory care plan (ACP) at the time of death can act as an indicator of access to palliative care. Key information ...

Breast cancer for many women is a horrific incident and makes the person encounter psychological and social challenges, including anxiety and particularly death anxiety. Among humankind, the most ...

Continuing professional development for non-medical prescribers is recognised as being pivotal in maintaining up-to-date knowledge and skills influencing prescribing competence (Weglicki, et al., 2015 ...