Sage Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care

This episode features Dr Gursharan K Singh (Centre for Healthcare Transformation, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, Australia). What is already known about the topic: - The degree to which individuals access and use palliative and end-of-life care services varies across communities and countries. What this paper adds: - This study found that the South Asian community (in Bradford, UK) are currently not ready to engage with palliative and end-of-life care services despite local initiatives to improve awareness. They are at the “pre-planning stage” (see Table 1) about end-of-life care options and of the services that are available to them. - This study also found evidence that the services that aim to support people from minoritised ethnic communities at the end-of-life are not ready to address ethnic inequities. - Such services were found to have: (i) a narrow focus during advance care planning, (ii) poor integration of voluntary and community services (iii) and limit