Rural palliative care needs: a survey of primary care professionals in Powys, Wales
- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- Published by Mark Allen Group in International Journal of Palliative Nursing
- Vol. 7 (12), 610-615
- https://doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2001.7.12.9286
Abstract
The county of Powys in rural Wales has a population of about 125000 people and no district general hospitals. In 1999, 12 Macmillan general practitioner clinical facilitators were appointed as part of a pilot project aiming to provide a coordinated framework for the commissioning of specialist cancer and palliative care services, extended clinical care to cancer and non-cancer patients, and an educational intervention to raise the standards of generalist palliative care. A survey of facilitators, general practitioners, district nurses and community hospital nurses was undertaken early in the project. Palliative care formed a small but significant part of respondents’ workload. Specialist palliative care services were seen as helpful but distant from the patients. Pain and symptom control were seen to be problematic in patients with diagnoses other than cancer. Services that provided 24-hour nursing care at home were thought to be in need of development by most respondents.Keywords
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