Of particular interest in this week's issue of Media Watch (copy attached):

The Netherlands

Timely identification of patients in need of palliative care using the Double Surprise Question: A prospective study on outpatients with cancer

U.K. (Northern Ireland)

Challenges for palliative care day services: A focus group study

U.K. (Scotland)

What makes palliative care needs “complex”? A multisite sequential explanatory mixed methods study of patients referred for specialist palliative care