Focus on Care Homes
- National Council for Palliative Care

A new publication launched in early July by The National Council for Palliative Care will provide care homes, hospices and the health service with the significant guidelines and necessary actions to ensure that the half a million people living in care homes across the UK receive the essential palliative care services they require.

‘Focus on Care Homes’ examines the learning from the 2004 NCPC discussion document ‘Palliative Care in Care Homes for Older People’ and the subsequent conference and multi-agency discussions which followed. It identifies present and potential challenges for the provision of palliative care in care homes and suggests actions to address these challenges. To order this publication at £7 per copy, email: publications@ncpc.org.uk or call NCPC HQ on 020 7697 1520.