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Guidance and regulation

• Choice in end of life care: government progress

  Guidance

  21 September 2017

  Department of Health and Social Care

• NHS Outcomes Framework 2013 to 2014

  Guidance

  13 November 2012

  Department of Health and Social Care

• NHS Outcomes Framework 2011 to 2012

  Guidance

  20 December 2010

  Department of Health and Social Care

• Namibia - List of Funeral directors
  • Guidance
  • 30 March 2015
  • Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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News and communications

Government commits to high quality end of life care

5 July 2016

Department of Health and Social Care

News story

1. £800,000 for social action projects that support people at end of life
   • 27 December 2014
   • Cabinet Office
   • Press release
2. £1 million fund to support people at end of life
   • 2 October 2014
   • Cabinet Office
   • News story
3. Expanding choice and improving the quality of end of life care
   • 1 July 2014
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • News story
4. New approach to care for the dying published
   • 26 June 2014
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • Press release

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Research and statistics

• End of Life Care Profiles: February 2018 update
  • 6 February 2018
  • Public Health England
  • Official statistics
• Choice in end of life care
  • 26 February 2015
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Independent report
• Liverpool Care Pathway review: response to recommendations
  • 26 June 2014
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Independent report
• Review of Liverpool Care Pathway for dying patients
  • 15 July 2013
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Independent report
• Independent Palliative Care Funding Review
  • 1 July 2011
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Independent report

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Policy and engagement

• Choice in end of life care: government response
  • 5 July 2016
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Policy paper
• NHS Outcomes Framework 2016 to 2017
  • 1 April 2016
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Policy paper
• Improvements to care in the last days and hours of life
  • 13 August 2015
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Policy paper
• 2010 to 2015 government policy: end of life care
  • 8 May 2015
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Policy paper
• NHS Outcomes Framework 2015 to 2016
  • 26 March 2015
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Policy paper

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Organisations

1. Department of Health & Social Care
2. Public Health England
3. Cabinet Office
4. Foreign & Commonwealth Office