The Palliative Care Institute Liverpool

The Service Innovation & Improvement Division is committed to maintain our focus on what truly matters and enables clinical excellence that makes a real and sustained difference to dying people and their relatives and carers, working with and for those who shape and deliver healthcare locally, nationally and internationally.

Useful resources

National Care for the Dying Audit Hospitals England 2014
- Royal College of Physicians (2014) National care of the dying audit for hospitals, England: National Report
Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying people 2014
- Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People (2014) Once chance to get it right: Improving people’s experience of care in the last few days and hours of life.
The NMC’s code and competency standards for nursing practice
- The Code: Standards of conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives
The NHS Constitution 2013
- Department of Health (2013) The NHS Constitution: the NHS belongs to us all.
GMC good practice guidance, Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision-making 2010
- General Medical Council (2010) Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making.
Examining the ethics of the Neuberger Review
- Colleagues may also be interested in the article examining the ethics of the Neuberger Review published this week by Dr Anthony Wrigley, Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University

Best Care for the Dying Person International

The vision of the International Collaborative for Best Care for the Dying Person is for a world where all people experience a good death as an integral part of their individual life, supported by the very best personalised care.

The Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool (MCPCIL), University of Liverpool, UK will be the coordinating Centre for the International Collaborative.

Useful resources

National Care for the Dying Audit Hospitals England 2014

Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying people 2014

The NMC’s code and competency standards for nursing practice

The NHS Constitution 2013

GMC good practice guidance, Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision-making 2010

Examining the ethics of the Neuberger Review

Postion Paper

International Model Documentation

International Conference in Lund, Sweden