Power to the people: do public health campaigns improve awareness and quality of palliative care?

The right to health includes a right of access to good quality palliative care, but inequalities persist. Raising awareness is a key plank of the public health approach to palliative care but involves consideration of subjects most of us prefer not to address. This talk examines the complexities of awareness raising, and distills key messages from international research.

Tags: end of life care, nursing, palliative care, Professor Jane Seymour

Let’s talk about dying

Lack of openness about death has negative consequences for the quality of care provided to the dying and bereaved.

Appears in Issue 41

Tags: death, end of life studies, Nottingham University Medical School, palliative care