As a result of COVID-19, community palliative care services have needed to adapt, rapidly and creatively find new ways of working revising and establishing new policies. Dr Rosemary Frey, Dr Aileen Collier from the University of Auckland, School of Nursing, Ms Jenny Thurston, Mercy Hospice Auckland and Scottish Researcher (Professor Bridget Johnston, University of Glasgow) are conducting a study adapted from a survey done by Costantini et al (2020)[1]. The purpose of the study is to compare the Covid-19 response by hospice in the Community Palliative Care Services in New Zealand and Scotland.
Dr Rosemary Frey discusses how the project findings to date.
[1] Costantini, M., Sleeman, K. E., Peruselli, C., & Higginson, I. J. (2020). Response and role of palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national telephone survey of hospices in Italy. Palliative medicine, 34(7), 889-895.
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