Improving hospital discharge is one of the Top 24 JLA priorities for palliative and end of life care research - mariecurie.org.uk/blog/researc...
It is also a key part of our recent Research Grants Scheme - www.mariecurie.org.uk/research-and...

The government's 10 Year Health Plan for England highlights the need to shift care from hospital to community. Discharge from specialist palliative care in hospital to community services and primary care is a poorly understood transition. Yet it is a key part of the end of life experience for many.

As well as sharing our insights into this under researched, but increasingly occurring process in palliative care, we identified four key principles to improve discharge communication from specialist palliative care.
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Therefore a good discharge was not simply associated with the efficient movement of a patient from one location to another. And people's descriptions of poor discharge reflected the discontinuities between the multiple aspects of their experience.
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We found a range of understandings for what "discharge" is for people in specialist palliative care. It had different meanings, a range of processes associated with it, and multiple timelines involved including the physical, the emotional, and the administrative.
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This work is one of the first to address a new priority for the @jameslindalliance.bsky.social palliative and end of life care research: How can discharge from hospital be
improved for people with any serious life-limiting illness?
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