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Service design

  • 34% of DCP service users in Somerset died at home compared to 15% for non-users
  • £180 million could be saved every year by reducing hospital admissions

Pioneering design

Since 2004, our service design team has been bringing together providers and commissioners from the public, independent and voluntary sectors to pioneer new ways of working through the Marie Curie Delivering Choice Programme (DCP).

This initiative has changed the way end of life care is delivered in 18 sites across the UK, including Lincolnshire, Somerset and Greenwich (London).

Supporting you

Drawing on our extensive experience from the DCP and our design work across the UK we can help you design fully integrated services that impact on the entire end of life care pathway. In light of the achievements we have seen so far, we are confident we can help you deliver better patient outcomes, genuine patient choice and greater equity to care for your population at the end of life.

Our service design support can help you solve specific local challenges such as timely and coordinated discharge for people nearing the end of their lives. Alternatively, we can work with you more broadly to design a fully integrated system through our DCP Local service. We can work to your timescales to enable rapid tangible change using a collaborative approach involving all local partners.

Find out more about DCP Local

Service design support

Marie Curie can support your individual requirements. We cater for individual needs and commissioning budgets, from offering you advice to a complete package to help address your specific challenges. For example, we can work with you to:

  • Design or implement a local service improvement to improve coordination of services or reduce inappropriate hospital admissions
  • Review an existing service, share insights and recommend improvements, based on our experience from our projects across the UK
  • Design a performance management framework to demonstrate successful outcomes

Read more about how we can help you

Get in touch

For more information about service design or DCP Local or to arrange an informal meeting to explore how we can work together please contact our service development team on 020 7599 7221 or servicedevelopment@mariecurie.org.uk