St. Peter's Hospice, the Evolution of Terminal Care for Cancer Patients in Bristol
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the necessary care in their own homes where the practitioner will have the responsibility for coordinating treatment. This is usually preferred by the patient and his relatives providing that symptoms are adequately controlled and there is assurance of immediate admission to a hospice if this proves medically or socially necessary'. A Working Group for Terminal Care was set up in March 1979 with the following Terms of ReferenceTo consider the organisation of primary, continuing and terminal care services for cancer and to make recommendations' issued a Report in March 1980. One of the conclusions is 'that every Regional Health Authority should plan for terminal
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