GPs are invited to lead new public health approach to end of life care

GPs in clinical commissioning groups have been invited to lead a new public health approach to end of life care in England.

On 10 September, Public Health England and the National Council for Palliative Care—an umbrella charity for workers involved in palliative, end of life, and hospice care—opened applications to be one of six “pathfinder communities” to pioneer this new approach. Implementing the newly launched Dying Well …