Hospice UK’s PopNAT (Population-based needs assessment tool) has been created to support hospices, local decision makers and other service providers across health and social care to plan for the future, identify unmet need and to innovate services based on intelligence about the end of life and palliative care needs of the local population.

New Lincolnshire wide symptom management guidance created by combining CD1 form, Lincolnshire wide symptom control guidelines and guidelines for prescribing in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease in the last days of life. Additional guidance added for management of diabetes at end of life. Opioid prescribing advice and conversion table added.