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The Government recognises that access to high-quality palliative and end of life care can make all the difference to individuals and their l

The National Health Service website and the NHS App are our main digital tools available to citizens, to support them in accessing services

Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for determining the level of locally available, National Health Service funded palliative and

The National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care sets out in paragraph 185 that, where an individual is elig

Monthly information on waiting lists and times for community health services in England can be found at the following link:

A quality standard for patient transfers, from critical care to general wards, has been published by the National Institute for Health and C

The majority of palliative and end of life care is provided by core National Health Service staff and services.

While the National Health Service has always been required to commission appropriate palliative and end of life care services to meet the re

As part of the Health and Care Act 2022, the Government added palliative care services to the list of services an integrated care board (ICB

Rehabilitation, and therapy-led reablement, are critical in ensuring that patients discharged on intermediate care pathways from acute setti