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Buck, Jackie 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3598-2329, Barclay, Stephen, Webb, Liz and Morgan, Lynn
(2015)
Inequities in a service struggling to meet demand: findings from an evaluation of a Hospice at Home service in Cambridgeshire.
In: Cambridge Institute of Public Health Research Conference, 2015-10-08, University of Cambridge.
Abstract
Background: Most people want to die at home. The Arthur Rank House Hospice in Cambridge re-launched its overnight Hospice at Home service in 2011 to provide home based hospice level care for people in Cambridgeshire in the final two weeks of life. This paper describes part of a mixed-methods evaluation to evaluate the nature, scope and equity of the service provision. Methods: A near time case note survey of all patients referred to the Hospice at Home service for one year from September 2012 (n=315). Quantitative data analysed descriptively, qualitative analysed thematically. Results: Roles of the service were identified: care co-ordination, specialist 'end of life care' assessment and advice, 'holding' complex patients until hospice beds become available, hands-on nursing care. Demand far outstripped supply. Approximately a third of all episodes of care requested each month were unfulfilled. People cared for by the service were predominantly male (55%). 75% had cancer. Only 10-12% of people who died at home locally with diagnoses other than cancer received support from hospicet at home. 50-60% of people who died at home locally with cancer were supported by the service. Discussion: The service provides comprehensive nursing care for people at the end of life, however the service is struggling to meet demand. There is potentially huge latent demand. Further research is needed to understand why so few people with diagnoses other than cancer are referred and to identify interventions to make the service more equitable.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Other) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Promotion |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2017 01:50 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2024 07:21 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/62766 |
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