Mind the gaps: understanding and improving out-of-hours care for people with advanced illness and their informal carers

Marie Curie - 

This research states that terminally ill people are struggling to access essential care at home during evenings and weekends, which the charity warns, means people are dying in pain. Amongst the findings is that out-of-hours emergency department attendance increases in frequency as death approaches, and is more common among people living in the most socioeconomically deprived areas.

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