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Excellence in cost-effective inpatient specialist palliative care in the NHS – a new model
- Source :
- Clinical Medicine. 16:7-11
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Royal College of Physicians, 2016.
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Abstract
- There is little in the literature describing hospital specialist palliative care units (PCUs) within the NHS. This paper describes how specialist PCUs can be set up within and be entirely funded by the NHS, and outlines some of the challenges and successes of the units. Having PCUs within hospitals has offered patients increased choice over their place of care and death; perhaps not surprisingly leading to a reduced death rate in the acute hospital. However, since the opening of the PCUs there has also been an increased home death rate. The PCUs are well received by patients, families and other staff within the hospital. We believe they offer a model for excellence in cost-effective inpatient specialist palliative care within the NHS.
- Subjects :
- Palliative care
National Health Programs
Cost–benefit analysis
Professional Issues
business.industry
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Mortality rate
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Palliative Care
General Medicine
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Nursing
Excellence
Models, Organizational
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
business
Hospital Units
health care economics and organizations
Acute hospital
Specialist palliative care
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14734893 and 14702118
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2785d19d8f2cc38aa5e4fce470aac0e3
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.16-1-7