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NICE quality standard [QS13]

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Published date: August 2011

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This NICE quality standard defines clinical best practice within this topic area. It provides specific, concise
quality statements, measures and audience descriptors to provide the public, health and social care
professionals, commissioners and service providers with definitions of high-quality care.
This quality standard
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This quality standard covers all settings and services in which care is provided by health and social care
staff to all adults approaching the end of life. This includes adults who die suddenly or after a very brief
illness. The quality standard does not cover condition-specific management and care, clinical
management of specific physical symptoms or emergency planning and mass casualty incidents.
31 October 2013: Following the independent review of the use of the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) for
the Dying Patient and the subsequent announcement of the phasing out of the LCP, interim
amendments have been made to this quality standard. These amendments, which relate to the removal of
direct and indirect references to the LCP, reflect the gradual phasing out of the LCP and ensure that the
quality standard remains current. This quality standard will be reviewed following the outcome of the
work of the Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People (LACDP).

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Endorsing organisations
Many organisations share NICE's commitment to improve quality by making it clear what quality care is
for patients and the public, health and social care professionals, commissioners and service providers.
So that these standards reach the widest possible audience, some of these organisations have endorsed
the end of life care for adults quality standard.
These organisations are:
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Medicine of Great Britain and

Association of Hospice and

Palliative Care Chaplains

Brainstrust

College of Occupational
Therapists

Compassion in Dying

English Community Care

Association

Gold Standards Framework

Macmillan Cancer Support

National Care Forum

National Council for Palliative

National End of Life Care

Pancreatic Cancer UK

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Patients' Association

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Resuscitation Council (UK)

Association (PSPA)

Sarcoma UK

Social Care Institute for

UK Community Advisory

Excellence

Board (UK-CAB)

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