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This site is part of the Palliative Care Matters network of sites. It is aimed at health-care professionals working in the palliative care field. Are you a Patient or Carer?If you are a patient or carer and would like to comment on the care you have received from your local palliative care team, you can do this at a website run by iWantGreatCare. Palliative Medicine Handbook The full text of the Palliative Medicine Handbook is freely available on-line. Other items of general interest (i.e. outside Wales) can be found on the main website of Palliative Care Matters.
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A report and overview of the Last days of Life Care Pathway by the Care Pathway Implementation team is now available to download from this site.
"Dying Well Matters" will be launched at the Welsh Assembly on Wednesday 9th December by Edwina Hart MBE AM, Minister for Health and Social Services. Professor the Baroness Finlay of Llandaff will outline a number of initiatives to capture feedback from patients and carers about their care at the end of life.
As part of the ongoing work of the Palliative Care Implementation Board, an All-Wales DNA-CPR form has been developed as part of the Care Pathway for the Last Days of Life in the community. This was 'launched' last week with a letter going out to all GPs in Wales, and to the Palliative Care Lead Clinicians in Health Boards. The form, together with Guidance Notes, can be downloaded from here.
A second newsletter has been prepared by the Informing Healthcare Palliative Care project group. The newsletters can be viewed here.
A Children and Transition Stakeholders Conference was held in cathays Park, Cardiff on September 29th 2009. Some details and presentations of the conference proceedings are available on this website.