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Full list of author information is available at the end of the articletraditional focus on specialist palliative care (SPC) teams caring for people with cancer in a hospice or community setting has been expanded to include a wide range of life-people demand greater choice in determining and tailor-ing their healthcare, including the opportunity to be cared for and die in places of preference [3]. Advances in detection and treatment mean that dis-eases such as cancer and HIV that previously killed people quickly are now chronic conditions that confer an increasing burden of symptoms and functional de