Press release
29 June 2011
Evaluation highlights key factors for establishing a locality register to co-ordinate care at the end of life
The development of local electronic registers to support improved co-ordination of care for people approaching the end of life can be complex but practical solutions are available, an Ipsos MORI evaluation of eight pilots has found.
The pilots began work on locality registers in the autumn of 2009 with support and co-ordination provided by the Department of Health and the National End of Life Care Programme (NEoLCP). Their work is assessed in the End of Life Locality Registers Evaluation Final Report published today.
The pilots adopted local approaches to developing an electronic system to record key information about a person nearing the end of life, including their preferences around the care they receive and place of death. The record should be accessible round-the-clock by a range of services involved in the individual’s care, supporting integrated working across organisational and professional boundaries.
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