Dr Sally Lawton, Dr Gordon Linklater, Dr Margaret Denholm & Lisa Macaulay discuss the main reasons why primary care-based nurses phone a specialist palliative care advice line.
Sally Lawton RGN, NDN (Cert), RCNT, RDNT, MA, PhD, LL.M, Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care (Nursing), NHS Grampian
Gordon Linklater MBChB, FRCP, DipMedEd, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, NHS Grampian
Margaret Denholm MBChB, MRCGP, DipPall.Med, Specialist Registrar, Palliative Medicine, NHS Grampian
Lisa Macaulay DipHE Nursing, Research and Development Nurse, Department of Palliative Medicine
Article accepted for publication: August 2008
