Palliative care information development: progress report on the National Minimum Data Set for palliative care

The aims of this report are: to describe the palliative care service delivery environment and implications for the development of the NMDS—palliative care; to provide an assessment of existing data collections relating to palliative care; to describe performance indicator data requirements and data development processes; and to provide information on work undertaken to date in developing the NMDS— palliative care, and to make recommendations for the future development of palliative care data.