Conference report: End of life care

The biggest driver of rising costs in our healthcare system is medical progress with new drugs, tests, devices and new ways of using them. Progress is welcome yet some of us will still die this year despite the best medical advances.When care is poor, this must be investigated within the quality governance structure of the organisation that is providing that care. We need to learn, and apply that learning so that care can be continually improved. A care pathway is a complex intervention for the mutual decision making and organisation of care processes for a well-defined group of patients during