Community out-of-hours palliative care - 'It's a patchwork of services': A qualitative study exploring care provision.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People in receipt of community palliative care usually receive care from a range of services and require access to care 24/7. However, care outside of normal working hours varies, with little understanding of which models of care are optimal.

Aim

To identify and characterise current models of out-of-hours community palliative care in the UK and explore healthcare professionals' views on the barriers and facilitators to providing high quality community out-of-hours care.

Design

Exploratory qualitative study using semi-structured interviews, analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.

Setting and participants

We recruited 39 healthcare professionals from 20 geographic areas. Participants were service leads from community palliative care, district/commu

SUBMITTER: Firth AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11776347 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature