They're closely related but not quite the same thing.
Palliative care is about improving quality of life for someone living with a serious or life-limiting illness. It can start at diagnosis and run alongside other treatments. The focus is on managing symptoms, reducing pain, and supporting the person and their family to live as well as possible, for as long as possible.
End-of-life care is a stage within that. It's the support provided in the final weeks, days or hours of a person's life, when the goal shifts entirely to comfort, dignity and being surrounded by the people you love.
We provide both. Whether someone needs palliative support over a longer period, or more intensive care as they approach the end of their life, we'll make sure the right level of support is in place. And that it changes as their needs do.
