Palliative care patients in many regional and remote areas have no direct access to specialist palliative care and face “unacceptable delays in provision of care or in some instances no care at all,” according to specialists. Painting a grim picture of the reality of end-of life care for many patients, the Queensland Specialist Palliative Care ...
Postcode lottery means patients die before receiving palliative care
By David Rowley
8 May 2019