Mind the gaps: understanding and improving out-of-hours care for people with advanced illness and their informal carers

This research states that terminally ill people are struggling to access essential care at home during evenings and weekends, which, the charity warns, means people are dying in pain. Among the findings is that out-of-hours emergency department attendance increases in frequency as death approaches, and is more common among people living in the most socio-economically deprived areas.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news