Clinical guidance

This guidance will help you support the patient, their family and carer to make decisions about care in the last days of life.

It details documentation, patient and family needs and clinical considerations through the important steps... Read more...

Useful for anyone who provides palliative care for adults in in patient and community settings, the guidance will help you support patients who:

Please note that all guidance is currently under review and some may be out of date. We recommend that you also refer to more contemporaneous evidence in the interim.

This guidance is intended for use by specialist palliative care clinicians. It can also be used as an educational and clinical support resource for specialist clinicians when they are training other healthcare professionals who may be part of the... Read more...

This guidance is intended for specialist palliative care teams and clinicians that deliver palliative care to people in specialist and non-specialist settings. It is intended to be used with the support of specialist palliative care clinicians... Read more...

Over the past four decades, the gestational age at which active management and neonatal intensive care is considered appropriate has steadily decreased.

Please note that all guidance is currently under review and some may be out of date. We recommend that you also refer to more contemporaneous evidence in the interim.