Getting serious about prevention: enabling people to stay out of hospital at the end of life

This paper by the National Council for Palliative Care calls for action to prevent unnecessary and costly hospital stays at the end of life.

It is intended to help commissioners as well as providers and contains key recommendations on how they can enable people to stay out of hospital at the end of life when they neither need nor want to be in hospital.

The report also contains examples of good practice where good planning and co-ordination enable people to be cared for out of hospital at the end of life, and examples from people with personal experience of end of life care.