Government palliative and end of life care websites

UK governments

England:
Department of Health provides fairly comprehensive websites: end of life strategy
website. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/IntegratedCare/Endoflifecare/index.htm
NHS end of life care website: http://www.endoflifecareforadults.nhs.uk/eolc/

Northern Ireland
No end of life or palliative care website at the Northern Ireland Office website, but a
search for palliative care on the Department of Health, Social Services and Public
Safety will lead to some documents:
http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/index.htm

Scotland
As with NI, there appears to be no website on palliative and/or end-of-life care on the
Scottish government website; searching for these topics (aside from the usual results
on things like end of life vehicles) produces a fairly large number of documents on
social care issues generally; this seems to suggest that the Scots see palliative care as
much more of a social care issue than the London-based Department of Health, which
is highly medical in its orientation. There is a national standard for hospice care
(2005):
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/46910/0025661.pdf
to which there are 2007 revisions:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/care/17652/RevHospice#top
The Scottish government website on health and community care is:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health
Don’t stay there too long or you get a really irritating video download about 60 years
of the NHS.

Wales
Again no specific website; NHS Wales website, connects to the Wales government
and National Assembly; a search for ‘palliative care’ offers a range of documents,
‘end of life care’ only one:
http://new.wales.gov.uk/topics/health/nhswales/?lang=en (also available in Welsh).
Commentary: All this suggests that, compared with the well-resourced England DH
site, there is no coordinated information about end–of-life and palliative care on
government website, although interesting documents may be found; see my selected
documents post.