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Palliative care

Relieving pain is at the core of medicine. There have been enormous advances in controlling pain and other symptoms that affect people at the end of their lives. Yet thousands in Scotland who could benefit from palliative care are not receiving it.

Relieving pain is at the core of medicine. There have been enormous advances in controlling pain and other symptoms that affect people at the end of their lives. Yet thousands in Scotland who could benefit from palliative care are not receiving it.