New patient-led advance care planning guide launched

A unique guide, which features the first patient-led advanced care planning tool has today been launched by Pavilion Publishing. ‘Taking Control’ – A Practical Guide and Tool for Advance Care Planning’, can be used by healthcare professionals to help patients navigate the complex healthcare system. It could significantly help to address the fact that more people than ever are dying in hospital when they would prefer to die at home.* With only 8% of the 15 million terminally ill patients in the UK having an advance care plan in place, ‘Taking Control’ could mean the needs of more patients are