Patient Pathways - Supportive and Palliative Care
Despite therapeutic advances, heart failure remains a progressive, incurable and ultimately fatal long term condition which has a major effect on both patients and their families. Despite a growing recognition of the requirement to provide supportive and palliative care for this clinical cohort, there are continuing significant unmet needs.
This lack of provision may be due to prognostic uncertainty and difficulties in defining end stage heart failure more than due to difficulties in providing an end of life service.
'You're better off with cancer'
Over half a million people die in Britain every year. Heart disease and cancer kill three quarters of us in this country. If you are dying of cancer like Keith you will get one kind of care - if you are dying of heart disease like Den you will get another. In this short video we follow the lives of Keith and Den over a period of two years and see the diiference in care they receive.
Edited with permission by NHS Improvement - Heart. ©Quality Time TV - Producer: Ann Moir
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End of Life Care in Heart Failure - A Framework for Implementation
This is a web based seminar hosted by Nigel Rowell, GP, The Endevavour Practice, Middlesbrough, discussing the End of Life Care in Heart Failure publication.
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