Rethinking the UK’s approach to dying

Compassion in Dying are calling for collaboration from government, health and voluntary and community organisations to:

Introduce an advance care planning conversation guarantee, initially through the NHS health check

Deliver a public health campaign on advance care planning

Create more opportunities for people to record what matters to them at the end of their lives

Introduce a duty of openness and transparency in end-of-life conversations to enable properly informed consent around treatment decisions

Develop mandatory training for healthcare professionals on end-of-life decision making under mental capacity legislation

Develop mandatory training for healthcare professionals to recognise when a person is approaching the end of their life and to support a transition to comfort care