Findings of the National End of Life Survey | 2023
This chapter presents the results for survey questions relating to care in the last two days of life, broken down by the relevant care setting. The questions in this section focused speciȴcally on care in the last two days and at the end of life.
Experiences of care in the last two days of life
“We felt that the ‘box’ containing the medicines administered during the last stage of life was initiated very quickly. The function of the medicines were explained, but the full range of possible eects was not. As soon as the medicines were administrated the patient ‘went to sleep’ and there was no further communication.”
“I am grateful to the experienced home help who saw my mother was suering pain, and got the district nurse to arrange a palliative care nurse to come and Doc to prescribe morphine in the last 2 days of my mother’s life.”
“Dad was moved to a private room for the last days but considering how sick he was, I felt this should have happened sooner.”
“Mum was made comfortable in her last few days.”
“Due to the holiday season the normal level of contact and support in the last few days was not available.”
“It was as though we were all in the sitting room at home, purely because the sta enabled and facilitated this visit. I am so grateful that it happened because I knew it was the one thing Daddy didn’t get a chance to do before he became too ill.”
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