End of Life Care
Use this guide to find information resources about end of life care including books, reports and journal articles.
Last updated:
08/02/2024
Key Resources
Royal College of Nursing (2016) When someone asks for your assistance to die: RCN guidance on responding to a request to hasten death.
RCN Learning resource: End of life care and wellbeing for the nursing and midwifery workforce
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Online learning resource for nursing staff:
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Marie Curie (2022) Caring for LGBTQ+ people at the end of life.
NHS (2021): End of life care.
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Information aimed at the public
NHS (2021): End of life care.
Review of Choice in End of Life Care Programme Board (2015) What’s important to me. A review of choice in end of life care. London: DH.
Department of Health (2016) Our commitment to you for end of life care. The government response to the review of choice in end of life care. London: DH.
Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Bevan Foundation (2014) Death and dying in Wales: an analysis of inconsistencies in access to specialist palliative care and hospital activity in the last year of life.Penarth: Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Care Quality Commission (2016) A different ending: addressing inequalities in end of life care. London: Care Quality Commission.
NHS England (2017) Delivering high quality end of life care for people who have a learning disability.
Nursing and Midwifery Council (2016) End of life care: our position. London: NMC.
NHS England (2015) Transforming end of life care in acute hospitals: the route to success ‘how to’ guide.
We would like to thank the RCN Pain and Palliative Care member community for their input into the development of this subject guide.
Books
Acquaviva K D (2017) LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice. La Verne: Perseus Book LLC (Ingram).
Allen R S, Carpenter B D and Eichorst M K (2018) Perspectives on palliative and end-of-life care: disease, social and cultural context. Abingdon: Routledge.
Bardy S (2016) Choosing end of life nursing. Adelaide: ATF Press.
Blackmore T and Parker G (2020) Community palliative care and COVID-19: a handbook for clinicians who care for palliative patients with COVID-19 in community settings. Class Professional Publishing: Bridgwater.
Cooper D B and Cooper J (2018) Palliative Care within Mental Health: Ethical Practice, Taylor and Francis.
Costello J (2019) Adult palliative care for nursing, health and social care. London: Sage Publications.
Hardy B and Flemming K (2023) Palliative and end of life nursing care. London: Learning Matters.
Lombard J (2018) Law, palliative care and dying: legal and ethical challenges. Abingdon: Routledge.
Mannix K (2019) With the end in mind: dying, death and wisdom in an age of denial. London: William Collins.
Matzo M L & Sherman D W (2018) Palliative care nursing: quality care to the end of life. New York: Springer.
Nicol J (2017) Palliative and end of life care in nursing, London: Sage.
Rose I and Ryan K (2016) Doorways into dying: innovative teachings for end of life. London: Austin Macauley.
Shapiro S P (2019) Speaking for the dying: life-and-death decisions in intensive care. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.
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Journal articles
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Journals
Journals of interest for end of life care. Use these links to see details of availability.
Explore
Royal College of Nursing (no date) Care home journey. RCN.
Social Care Institute for Excellence (2014) End of life care: achieving dignity for those with dementia, Great Britain: Social Care TV (video).
Social Care Institute for Excellence (2014) and palliative care: Thinking about the words we use, Great Britain: Social Care TV (video).
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Joseph Dempster
Editor of this guide
RCN Library and Archive Service
Page last updated - 08/02/2024
