Nurses who run palliative care teams are to get access to funds to buy new beds and establish facilities for grieving relatives, it was announced yesterday.
Some one million pounds has been set aside for the project, in 19 NHS Trusts and one prison.
The cash is to be channelled through the King’s Fund as part of its Enhancing the Healing Environment programme.
As well as receiving £40,000 in cash for improvements, team members will take part in King’s Fund programmes to improve their leadership skills and share ideas.
King’s Fund chief executive Niall Dickson said: "We are still not doing enough for patients at the end of life. Dying patients and their families, like recovering patients, deserve dignity and a caring environment, but too often they are not experiencing this.
"This new programme is an important step towards better care for a much neglected group."
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Care services minister Ivan Lewis said: "The Government is committed to improving care and people’s choices at the end of life, regardless of their condition or their location. We are taking this work forward through the development of a national End of Life Care Strategy for adults, which will be published in the summer.
"These projects will help to ensure that all people are treated with dignity and respect at the end of their lives and that pain and suffering amongst people approaching the end of life is kept to an absolute minimum."
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