Why work with Marie Curie

Marie Curie Cancer Care has an impact on end of life care in different ways.

• A recent study by the Nuffield Trust provides strong evidence that end of life care provided by the Marie Curie Nursing Service reduces the need for emergency hospitalisation, allows more people to die at home and cuts hospital costs.
• Our service design team helps local providers and commissioners to develop a range of well-coordinated local services for palliative care patients through the Marie Curie Delivering Choice Programme.
• The Marie Curie End of Life Care Atlas is a web-based mapping tool which gives commissioners new insight into care provision in
  their local areas.

New evidence: Marie Curie improves patient outcomes

The Nuffield Trust, commissioned by Marie Curie, recently published the first large study examining the impact of the Marie Curie Nursing Service on the hospital use and place of death of more than 29,000 patients. The study matched Marie Curie Nursing Service patients to controls who were similar in all respects, other than not being Marie Curie patients.

Among many findings, the report demonstrated that Marie Curie patients were twice as likely to die at home as matched controls - 77 per cent versus 35 per cent - and fewer than 8 per cent of Marie Curie patients died in hospital, compared to 41 per cent of matched controls.

Download the executive summary (PDF 905KB)
Download the full report (PDF 9MB)
Visit the Nuffield Trust website for more information.

Video

Marie Curie Chief Executive Dr Jane Collins talks about the Nuffield Trust report findings and what they tell us about the impact of the Marie Curie Nursing service on end of life care.

Michael Cooke, Head of Analytics in our Caring Services team, takes us through the data and what it means.