Produced by: Clinical Guidelines Working Party, National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), December 1997, Reviewed and Updated November 2006.

Purpose: For the use of health care professionals who are caring for dying patients in primary care and institutional settings, including acute hospitals and nursing homes.

Can be obtained from: National Council for Palliative Care, The Fitzpatrick Building, 188-194 York Way, London N7 9AS. Telephone: 020 7697 1520. Price £20.

Link to website: www.ncpc.org.uk/publications/index.html

Produced by: National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), March 2004

Purpose: Guidance for the NHS in England and Wales on how supportive and palliative care services should be provided for adults with cancer. To advise those who develop and deliver cancer services on how to make sure that patients, families and carers are well informed, cared for and supported.

Can be obtained from: Telephone the NHS Response Line on 0870 1555455 and quote reference N0474. Bilingual information for the public has been published, reference N0476, and a CD with all documentation including the research evidence on which the guidance is based is also available, reference N0475.

Link to website: www.nice.org.uk/guidance/csgsp

Produced by: Clinical Guidelines Working Party, National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), June 2003

Purpose: For the use of health care professionals who are caring for dying patients in primary care and institutional settings, including acute hospitals and nursing homes.

Can be obtained from: National Council for Palliative Care, The Fitzpatrick Building, 188-194 York Way, London N7 9AS. Telephone: 020 7697 1520. Price £7.00.

Link to website: www.ncpc.org.uk/publications/index.html

Produced by: Marianne Tavares, The Prince of Wales’s Foundation for Integrated Health and the National Council for Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Services, May 2003

Purpose: For the use of health care professionals who are caring for dying patients in primary care and institutional settings, including acute hospitals and nursing homes.

Can be obtained from: The Prince of Wales’s Foundation for Integrated Health website.

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Produced by: Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN). Publication No.44, June 2000.

Purpose: To create clinical guidelines for the control of pain in cancer patients.

Can be obtained from: Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JQ. Tel. 0131 225 7324.

Link to website: www.sign.ac.uk/guidelines/fulltext/44/index.html

Produced by: National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC). Occasional Paper 12. Glickman M/Working Party on Standards, March 1997

Purpose: To provide advice for those who are involved in providing or purchasing specialist palliative care.

Can be obtained from: National Council for Palliative Care, The Fitzpatrick Building, 188-194 York Way, London N7 9AS. Telephone: 020 7697 1520. Price £6.00.

Link to website: www.ncpc.org.uk/publications/index.html

Produced by: National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC). Occasional Paper 10, October 1996.

Purpose: To review the recent development and current provision of palliative care in the general hospital setting. The paper combines qualitative and quantitative description and refers to the published literature. It is particularly intended for the use of Health Authority purchasers, Chief Executives, Directors and Nursing and other managers in NHS Trusts and other involved in specialist palliative care.

Can be obtained from: National Council for Palliative Care, The Fitzpatrick Building, 188-194 York Way, London N7 9AS. Telephone: 020 7697 1520. Price £5.00.

Link to website: www.ncpc.org.uk/publications/index.html