Analysis of the specialist palliative care services commissioned in patients own home
Type of service commissioned | Number of CCGs who recorded its use |
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Hospice-led or hospice-at-home only | 27 |
Hospice/hospice-at-home and 24/7 telephone line only | 10 |
24/7 telephone line only | 9 |
Marie Curie/CNS nurses only | 8 |
Hospice and community nurses only | 7 |
Additional services (where CCGs recorded hospice care and/or phone line, they noted these services in addition) | |
Community nursing services | 25 |
Night services | 19 |
Marie Curie | 18 |
Macmillan | 7 |
Supportive care at home services (with equipment delivery) | 4 |
No specific details of out-of-hours services | 18 |
CCGs gave qualitative responses detailing the services they considered to be 24/7 services, and the most common responses have been summarised quantitatively here.