This is your chance to comment on NHS strategy for end of life care

People in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland invited to comment on new NHS strategy for all-age end of life care

NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (LLR ICB) is asking for people’s views on the care people can expect to receive towards the end of their life.

Working closely with other local organisations, the LLR ICB has developed ‘Our All-Age Palliative and End of Life Care Strategy’, and is seeking the views of patients, family carers, staff, the public and wider stakeholders, to ensure that the strategy reflects the needs of local people.

The strategy will inform the development of local services in the future, and its purpose is to make sure that people who are in the last stages of their lives receive the care they need to keep them independent for as long as possible, to be comfortable, that their dignity and wellbeing is maintained and that they can die in a place of their choosing and with proper support for families and carers.

In developing the strategy, the LLR ICB worked closely with local organisations involved in providing palliative and end of life care, their staff, local voluntary organisations and other partners. They also spoke to people receiving end of life care and to their relatives, and their experiences have been invaluable in helping to develop the strategy.

Key priorities have been identified for the next five years, to improve the equity, access, quality, personalisation and responsiveness of services for people at the end of their lives and for their loved ones.

People will have until Sunday 22 September 2024 to share their views in the following ways:

•       Visit the LLR ICB website and completing a questionnaire:

•       Email your views to: llricb-llr.beinvolved@nhs.net 

•       Telephone: 0116 295 7572 to ask for a paper copy of the questionnaire or to receive information in a different format

•       Write to: Freepost Plus RUEE–ZAUY–BXEG, End of Life Engagement, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board, Room G30, Pen Lloyd Building, Leicestershire County Council, Leicester Road, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8TB