"The End of Life Care Strategy (2008) identified the need to improve co-ordination of care, recognising that people at the end of life frequently received care from a wide variety of teams and organisations. The developments of Locality Registers (now Electronic Palliative Care Co-ordination Systems known as EPaCCS) were identified as a mechanism for enabling co-ordination." (National End of Life Care Programme (NEoLCP)

http://www.endoflifecareforadults.nhs.uk/publications/epaccs-making-the-case-for-change