Things have improved

doi:10.1136/bmj.309.6960.1017a

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P Stone,
C Phillips,
A Mabbott,
P Langstone

Royal London Hospital Trust, London E1 1BB

EDITOR, - Mina Mills and colleagues paint a grim picture of the quality of care of dying patients in Scottish teaching hospitals in 1983.1 They conclude by exhorting the medical profession to “implement practical steps to facilitate high quality care of the dying” and to transmit the knowledge and skills of the hospice movement into all settings. While we agree that these findings are still relevant to current clinical practice, we believe that the situation has improved …