Friday 20 April 2018

Developing design principles for a Virtual Hospice: improving access to care

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care; Mar 2018; vol. 8 (no. 1); p. 53-57
Taylor, Andrea; French, Tara; Raman, Sneha

This paper presents early-stage design work on a Virtual Hospice to improve access to services provided by Highland Hospice serving a largely remote and rural population in Scotland. A number of themes and barriers to accessing the Hospice's services were identified and, in response, an initial set of seven design principles was developed to improve prioritisation and decision making by ensuring alignment with research insights. It is suggested that this approach could be applied by other hospices facing similar challenges on delivering services in remote and rural settings.

Available in print in Arthur Rank Hospice Library, Cambridge