Findings of the National End of Life Survey | 2023
Q103. Do you have any other comments or suggestions about the care your relative or friend received?
“All in all we as a family were very happy with the overall care of our Mam. She died at home very peacefully thanks to the hospice nurses and comfortably due to hospital bed at home which was fantastic. All her needs and requests were honoured between the Public Health
“The main problem seems to be the lack of palliative care teams/staff at weekends - Also lack of communication between parts of HSE. Dad was actually in a palliative care room in the HSE nursing home/unit. He could have stayed there (if it wasn’t weekend). He ended up going across the road to the hospital in an ambulance and waiting in that ambulance (then put in another ambulance) before eventually getting in to A&E. We then had to listen to staff tell us palliative care staff will be in Monday - he struggled on with whatever they gave him until Sunday night.”
Nurse/Care Team and hospice care at home.”
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