Table 3 Essential Messages of Educational Message for Palliative Care

Palliative care considered as a system of ‘best care’, not linked to specific ‘place’ or setting

Viewed as an active approach to care, offering solutions and improving quality of life

Enabling people to stay out of hospital and provided across all settings, all conditions and all times.

Enabling choices, decision making and facilitating goals of care for both patients and families

Providing expert management of symptoms from members of specialist and generalist multidisciplinary team

Facilitation of living independently as well as possible for as long as possible

Earlier integration in the patients’ journey and includes but not just focused on end of life care.