1. Up-to-date cancer register | 723 (55.4) | 515 (53.9) | 889 (93.1) |
2. Up-to-date palliative care register | 290 (22.2) | 219 (22.9) | 852 (89.2) |
3. Regular primary healthcare team (PHCT) meetings | 865 (66.3) | 648 (67.9) | 769 (80.5) |
4. Regularly discuss palliative care patients at PHCT meeting | 339 (26.0) | 256 (26.8) | 735 (77.0) |
5. Use a palliative care communication tool | 906 (69.4) | 675 (70.7) | 878 (91.9) |
6. Regular planned practice meetings with palliative care specialist(s) | 549 (42.1) | 412 (43.1) | 565 (59.2) |
7. Nominated coordinator within practice for palliative care | 582 (44.6) | 441 (46.2) | 871 (91.2) |
8. Inform secondary care specialist of coordinator’s details | 135 (10.3) | 102 (10.7) | 337 (35.3) |
9. Record advanced care planning with whole PHCT | 279 (21.4) | 221 (23.1) | 657 (68.8) |
10. Record advanced care planning with patients/carers | 689 (52.8) | 528 (55.3) | 835 (87.4) |
11. Record preferred place of care/death | 313 (24.0) | 239 (25.0) | 681 (71.3) |
12. Note lead general practitioner and district nurse for each patient | 562 (43.1) | 437 (45.8) | 786 (82.3) |
13. Use physical symptom assessment tool for palliative care needs | 386 (29.6) | 294 (30.8) | 421 (44.1) |
14. Routinely assess palliative care patients’ physical needs and symptom control | 1072 (82.1) | 785 (82.2) | 910 (95.3) |
15. Routinely assess psychosocial needs | 928 (71.1) | 689 (72.1) | 859 (89.9) |
16. Routinely assess religious/spiritual needs | 482 (36.9) | 366 (38.3) | 536 (56.1) |
17. System/protocol to routinely assess patients’ expressed needs | 551 (42.2) | 414 (43.4) | 721 (75.5) |
18. Send handover form to out-of-hours care provider | 547 (41.9) | 414 (43.4) | 786 (82.3) |
19. Practice-based educational palliative care events in last 6 months | 409 (31.3) | 305 (31.9) | 337 (35.3) |
20. Palliative care review/audit meeting in last 6 months | 224 (17.2) | 166 (17.4) | 487 (51.0) |
21. Regularly use palliative care significant event analysis | 786 (60.2) | 582 (60.9) | 721 (75.5) |
22. Maintain carers’ database | 396 (30.3) | 292 (30.6) | 476 (49.8) |
23. Offer specific leaflets/information to carers | 530 (40.6) | 402 (42.1) | 665 (69.6) |
24. Give carers information on what to do after death | 801 (61.4) | 609 (63.8) | 778 (81.5) |
25. Routinely assess main carer’s practical needs | 855 (65.5) | 643 (67.3) | 807 (84.5) |
26. Routinely assess main carer’s psychosocial needs | 596 (45.7) | 455 (47.6) | 653 (68.4) |
27. Give carers information regarding statutory services | 557 (42.7) | 407 (42.6) | 633 (66.3) |
28. Have a practice protocol for care of the bereaved | 272 (20.8) | 201 (21.0) | 376 (39.4) |
29. Have practice protocol for care of dying cancer patients | 205 (15.7) | 160 (16.8) | 439 (46.0) |
30. Follow a care pathway | 166 (12.7) | 120 (12.6) | 362 (37.9) |
31. Have a procedure for use of anticipatory medication in the home | 633 (48.5) | 467 (48.9) | 786 (82.3) |
32. Routinely assess and discontinue inappropriate medication | 1081 (82.8) | 807 (84.5) | 906 (94.9) |
33. Inform family when cancer patient is entering the dying phase | 1213 (93.0) | 896 (93.8) | 930 (97.4) |
34. Extended principles to non-cancer patients | 653 (50.0) | 486 (50.9) | 662 (69.3) |
35. Extended work to patients from point of diagnosis | 374 (28.7) | 270 (28.3) | 428 (44.8) |