The south-east London project

The south-east London project team at the launch: (l-r) Karen Burfitt, Sara Stevenson-Baker, Mary Bowen and Mathew Fry with Tim Jackson, Nursing Director, South East London Cancer Network

More patients at the end of life will be supported to die at home across south-east London with the introduction of the Marie Curie Delivering Choice Programme to the area.

Andrew Eyres, Acting Chief Executive, Lambeth Primary Care Trust, said:

"There are some truly excellent palliative care services underway in south-east London, but there are also some clear barriers which stop patients from making the right choice over their place of care and death. This programme will tackle these obstacles head on so that we can support a lot more patients in making choices over their place of care with more community-based services available close to where people live."

The programme's work in south-east London will make a key contribution to the NHS's A Picture of Health for South East London project - an initiative focusing on how services need to change to meet the needs of the population. The south-east London project is also governed by the Picture of Health board.

Phase I of the project is now underway. It is envisaged that the entire project will run until autumn 2010.

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