End of life care services

Patients, families, carers and professionals across Kent and Medway worked with NHS Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)* to co-produce a new end of life care strategy.

Views were shared via:

  • a survey
  • six virtual workshops
  • a feedback review session.

Recommendations informed the development of the strategy approved at the CCG’s Clinical Cabinet in August 2021.

The Clinical Cabinet is a committee of clinicians that review and comment on clinical commissioning strategies and consider and approve (within delegated limits) proposals of improvements and changes to care pathways.

Actions taken as a result aim to align service provision and improve the quality of palliative and end of life care.

These include:

  • education and training for using the RESPECT Care Plan tool
  • planning a review of the bereavement service
  • developing a single point of contact for patients, their families and carers.

Note: NHS Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) ceased to exist as a statutory organisation in July 2022. The CCG’s responsibilities now sit with NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).

Patients, families, carers and professionals across Kent and Medway worked with NHS Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)* to co-produce a new end of life care strategy.

Views were shared via:

  • a survey
  • six virtual workshops
  • a feedback review session.

Recommendations informed the development of the strategy approved at the CCG’s Clinical Cabinet in August 2021.

The Clinical Cabinet is a committee of clinicians that review and comment on clinical commissioning strategies and consider and approve (within delegated limits) proposals of improvements and changes to care pathways.

Actions taken as a result aim to align service provision and improve the quality of palliative and end of life care.

These include:

  • education and training for using the RESPECT Care Plan tool
  • planning a review of the bereavement service
  • developing a single point of contact for patients, their families and carers.

Note: NHS Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) ceased to exist as a statutory organisation in July 2022. The CCG’s responsibilities now sit with NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).