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End of Life Care
People of Sheffield: don’t shy away from talking about dying - that’s the message from NHS Sheffield.
Dying is inevitable, around 1% of Sheffield’s population die each year and in England approximately half a million people die. Death is something that will touch all of us at sometime in our lives, the death of a loved one, friend , relative - indeed our own death
End of life should be important to us all, although it is difficult to define, as it varies for each individual, but typically people become frailer, less mobile and their symptoms and treatments increase.
How we care for the dying has been described as ‘a measure of society as a whole’ by the National End of Life Care Strategy.
In Sheffield there is a range of high quality specialist end of life care services and generalists that support end of life care. Through the publication of our local End of Life Care Strategy, NHS Sheffield and our care providers are aiming to address the barriers in Sheffield that prevent people from dying in the place of their preference.
NHS Sheffield’s Strategic Lead for End of Life Care - Simon Kirk, Director of Strategy.
Strategy & Specification Lead - Marianna Hargreaves
In this section:
Documents:
- Sheffield’s End of Life Care Strategy (361kb pdf)
- National End of Life Care Strategy - promoting high quality care for all adults at the end of life (DoH website)
- Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making - GMC guidance (509kb pdf, via GMC website)
- Kings Fund Review letter - Key messages (98kb pdf)
- Consultancy Report for NHS Sheffield: Options for the coordination and organisation of end of life care services in Sheffield (216kb pdf)
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