Healthcare management

Positive end of life

3.3 Policy

Effective policies are essential to address systemic challenges in end-of-life care:

  1. Advance Care Planning: Encouraging the use of Advance Care Plans (ACPs) and Advance Directives to ensure care aligns with individual preferences (NHS England, 2022).
  2. Funding and Resource Allocation: Addressing cost-shifting between health and social care budgets to ensure seamless care delivery (Leadbeater & Garber, 2010).
  3. Equality in Care: Ensuring that diagnosis, age, ethnicity, or locality do not act as barriers to high-quality care (End of Life Care Strategy, 2008).
  4. Public Awareness: Promoting conversations about death and dying to normalize end-of-life planning (Dying Matters, 2013).
  1. 3.1 Introduction
  2. 3.2 Strategy
  3. 3.3 Policy
    1. 3.3.1 Key policy interventions
  4. 3.4 Private sector
    1. 3.4.1 Hospice and palliative care industries
    2. 3.4.2 Workplace health
    3. 3.4.3 Technology and end of life care
    4. 3.4.4 Third-sector organisations
    5. 3.4.5 Strategic partnerships
    6. 3.4.6 Innovations in end of life care