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Palliative care for patients with heart failure: description of a service

MJ Johnson

Hull York Medical School and St. Catherine's Hospice, Scarborough, miriam.johnson{at}st-catherineshospice.org.uk

T Houghton

Scarborough and East Yorkshire NHS Trust

Over the past 10 years, there has been an increasing demand for heart failure patients to have access to palliative care services. The concerns of this group have been highlighted and there is growing recognition in national palliative care and cardiology bodies that these concerns should be addressed. In spite of this, there is little improvement. There are concerns about the acceptability of hospice services to heart failure patients, worries about service overload, lack of appropriate knowledge and skills and difficulty in knowing when to refer a heart failure patient for palliative care.

In Scarborough, a joint approach by a cardiologist and palliative care physician was set up in September 2000. This paper describes the service so far in an attempt to address some of the above reservations and to provide a catalyst and encouragement to others beginning a similar venture.

Key Words: heart failure • palliative care

Palliative Medicine, Vol. 20, No. 3, 211-214 (2006)
DOI: 10.1191/0269216306pm1120oa
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