title: Developing palliative care practice in the community.
abstract: The inadequacy of some areas of palliative care provision was acknowledged in the NHS Cancer Plan (DoH 2000). Many patients would prefer to die at home, but only one quarter are able to do so because of the lack of community or specialist palliative care teams in some parts of the country. The Lancashire and South Cumbria Cancer Services Network developed an initiative to meet the educational and training needs of practitioners delivering palliative care in the community.
authors.affiliation: Lancashire and South Cumbria Cancer Services Network, Preston. lstorey@uclan.ac.uk
authors.forename: Les
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Storey
authors.forename: Lee
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: O'Donnell
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Howard
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration; D004739:England; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015402:Nursing Education Research / Q000379:methods; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods