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The Integrated Symptom Control and Palliative Care ‘Triggers’ service was developed to support oncology outpatients to live as well as possible throughout their cancer journey.The aim of this survey was to evaluate the views of oncology clinicians about the ‘Triggers’ service in a tertiary referral oncology centre 6 years after the servi...
Despite a wealth of research regarding COVID-19, little evidence exists about cancer patients’ specific needs and experiences at end-of-life. This study retrospectively describes the care of 34 hospitalised cancer patients dying with COVID-19. The palliative care needs of patients were described. The main domains of end-of-life care service provisi...
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Clinical trials demonstrate that early referral to specialist palliative care improves patient outcomes in terms of quality of life and symptom control. This qualitative research study is part of a mixed methods evaluation of a novel early integrated Palliative Care (‘Triggers’) service for cancer patients. The Triggers service involves...
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Trials have proved the benefits of early Palliative Care involvement in Oncology care, such as improved quality of life, better understanding of disease and better symptom control. Based on these we have introduced a new model of Integrated Palliative Care at the Royal Marsden - the ‘Triggers’ service since March 2017. It involves the us...
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Global leading cancer organisations recommend that palliative care should be available to all patients, regardless of stage of disease. We established a novel Integrated Palliative Care service (‘Triggers’ Service) for lung cancer outpatients. New patients are screened by oncologists using a brief palliative care referral ‘Triggers’ tool...
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There is growing evidence to support the benefits of early integrated palliative care (PC) for patients with advanced cancer. Within a tertiary referral cancer centre we started a new Integrated Symptom Control and PC service. The aim of this service is to proactively identify patients who would benefit from PC review and to offer earlie...
