title: Community nursing quality indicators for end-of-life care in England: identification, preparation, and coordination.
abstract: High-quality community nursing is essential to ensure that end-of-life care can be provided in community settings in line with patient preferences. This article examines the quality priorities commissioners sought to incentivise in end-of-life care, by reviewing a survey of Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) indicators for community nursing conducted in England in 2014-2015. Findings from the survey suggest that end-of-life care was not given a high priority with the CQUIN indicators for community nursing. Vigorous quality standards, including training and development, need to be in place to make sure that the potential of community nursing is being used to sensitively engage with people nearing the end of their lives and support them to plan their future care, if they so wish.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Community Nurse Advisor (QuICN Project), at University of the West of England, Bristol, England.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, at University of the West of England, Bristol, England.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Horrocks
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000592:standards*; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000592:standards*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000592:standards*
keywords: advance care planning; community health nursing; end-of-life care; quality of health care; survey