Service change and innovation in community end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Qualitative analysis of a nationwide primary care survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary healthcare teams (general practice and community nursing services) within the United Kingdom provided the majority of community end-of-life care during COVID-19, alongside specialist palliative care services. As international healthcare systems move to a period of restoration following the first phases of the pandemic, the impact of rapidly-implemented service changes and innovations across primary and specialist palliative care services must be understood.

Aim

To provide detailed insights and understanding into service changes and innovation that occurred in UK primary care to deliver end-of-life care during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design

Cross-sectional online survey. Responses were analysed using descriptive statistics and thema

SUBMITTER: Mitchell S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8796165 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature