Access to palliative and end-of-life care medicines : supporting community pharmacy's role

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LATTER, Sue

Across the world, the need for palliative and end-of-life care is rising as the population ages and more people are living longer with multiple long-term conditions. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of deaths at home rose steeply. and more generally, the home is still the preferred place of death for large numbers of people. Community-based palliative and end-of-life care should be delivered by a multidisciplinary primary and community healthcare professional team. It is generally considered to involve a combination of generalists – those for whom this care forms part of a broader role, such as General Practitioners (GPs), pharmacists and community nurses – working together with specialists in palliative and end-of-life care, such as specialist community nurses and doctors employed by hospices and/or secondary care specialists.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijpp/riac060

Voir la revue «The international journal of pharmacy practice, 30»

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