British End-of-Life Quality Survey

The British Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released the National Bereavement Survey 2011.  Among other things, the data show:

• Only 50 per cent of hospital nurses showed dignity and respect towards patients at the end of their lives, compared to 80 per cent of hospice nurses 


• And just 30 per cent of people who died in hospital were given a choice about where they died, whereas the figure was double that for those in a hospice