Hospice News November 5, 2024
Palliative care is a neglected health care priority worldwide, three nursing experts contend.
A range of factors contribute to this neglect, including misconceptions about the nature of palliative care, a lack of clinical education opportunities and research and health equity issues, according to Richard Harding, interim executive dean; Oladayo Afolabi, research associate; and Anna Peeler, research associate, with the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, and Palliative Care, King’s College London.
The three authors recently published their remarks in the British Medical Journal.
“Millions of people around the world live and die with virtually no access to pain and symptom relief. We have failed to tackle this preventable suffering in people with life limiting illness, and the problem will continue...
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