Role and response of primary healthcare services in community end-of-life care during COVID-19: Qualitative study and recommendations for primary palliative care delivery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The need for end-of-life care in the community increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Primary care services, including general practitioners and community nurses, had a critical role in providing such care, rapidly changing their working practices to meet demand. Little is known about primary care responses to a major change in place of care towards the end of life, or the implications for future end-of-life care services.

Aim

To gather general practitioner and community nurse perspectives on factors that facilitated community end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to use this to develop recommendations to improve future delivery of end-of-life care.

Design

Qualitative interview study with thematic analysis, followed by refinement

SUBMITTER: Turner N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9720421 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature