Community Palliative Care Rapid Response Service

The aim of the service is to provide high quality, co-ordinated, flexible and responsive palliative nursing care in the community at short notice. The service also aims to enable patients to attain their preferred place of care and reduce inappropriate emergency admissions for those patients whose needs can be met by rapid, short term intervention in the end-of-life stage of their illness. An innovative funding approach has been adopted for this service where the respective CCGs will jointly fund the service with a...