Delivering Choice Programme

Working in partnership with local NHS, voluntary sector health providers and social services, the Delivering Choice Programme will focus on designing care services that provide choice to terminally ill patients and support to their carers for place of care and death.

Research commissioned by Marie Curie Cancer Care shows most people in the UK would want to be cared for at home if they were terminally ill, however around half of all cancer patients in the UK still die in hospital.

Marie Curie Cancer Care has welcomed and joined the Government efforts to improve choice at the end-of-life care and our campaign, Supporting the Choice to Die at Home and our Delivering Choice Programme will help improve current services and increase choice and support to patients and their carers.

The Delivering Choice Programme will comprise a number of pilot projects throughout the UK, starting in Lincolnshire. In addition, the programme is now offering a new online toolkit which contains all the resources care providers and commissioners need to implement their own local project independently.

Click here to visit the Delivering Choice Programme website.