Volume 12, Number 1, Jan-Feb-Mar 2015

Improving end-of-life care in the community
Maggie Stobbart Rowlands, Julie Armstrong Wilson, Professor Keri Thomas

Most nurses are involved in the care of the 1% of the population currently nearing the end of their lives: that is, people considered to be in their final year, months, weeks or days of life. The Gold Standards Framework (GSF) programmes can help provide a structured framework in this challenging area, leading to more proactive and consistent standards of care, and enabling more people to live well and die well where they choose.

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