Family Practice Vol. 19, No. 3, 219-220
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The need for palliative care to remain primary care focused
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Lloyd-Williams M and Carter Y. The need for palliative care to remain primary care focused. Family Practice 2002; 19: 219220.
Received 27 July 2001; Revised 28 October 2001; Accepted 7 January 2002.
Palliative medicine is now the eleventh largest medical speciality, but what has happened to the speciality for the holistic care of patients who are dying, which started with its roots firmly in the hospice movement? Patients spend the majority of the last year of life at home under the care of their own GP or family physician.1 In the UK, hospices originally were staffed by experienced GPs
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