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Improving environments for care at the end of life

Research record PAH-069 · Finding, limitations, sources and publication relationships.

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· 2011 · United Kingdom

Findings, methods and sources

PracticeProgramme / guidanceContext / synthesis

Finding. Describes nurse-led projects to improve environments for end-of-life care under the King’s Fund Enhancing the Healing Environment programme, including findings of an independent evaluation by the University of Nottingham.

Limitation. Environmental improvements broadly; the contribution of artwork is not isolated.

The King’s Fund. Environments for care at end of life: the King’s Fund’s Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme 2008–2010. London: The King’s Fund; 2011.

Methods and verification

Verification level: Abstract or primary source checked

Design
Programme case studies with independent evaluation
Sample / scope
Projects in 19 NHS trusts and one prison
Setting
Hospital and prison end-of-life care environments
Art form
Several or unspecified

Abstract or primary source checked, 28 September 2026 · Verification source

Editorial review: 2026-09-28 · Verification policy

Publications and overlap

No confirmed shared-publication match is recorded for this entry in Edition 4.11. Source-by-source and participant-level reconciliation is incomplete; this does not establish an independent study.

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Public Art & Health. Improving environments for care at the end of life. Research record PAH-069. Edition 4.11, 29 September 2026. https://www.publicart.health/research/pah-069

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