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Where to get help

Decisions about emergencies can be clear cut, but in patients with advanced disease there are many occasions when uncertainty exists on: whether the deterioration is treatable, if it should be treated, how it should be trated. 

Advice can be sought from specialist teams for the disease concerned, pain teams and palliative care (PC) teams.

See www.hospiceinformation.info for information on local PC terms. Some provide 24 hour advice on difficult problems.

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