Classification of specialist palliative care services and healthcare professionals involved in these services.

Palliative care consultation teams offer services to patients at home as well as to patients in hospital/hospice/nursing home. Seventy-seven per cent of those for whom palliative care consultation is requested are cared for at home [43].GPs who followed a ‘training in palliative care for general practitioners with an advisory role’ offered by the Dutch Association of General Practitioners (Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap, NHG) and who are registered as palliative care advisors in a central database.For patients admitted to hospital for at least one day in the last three months of life.No specialist palliative care initiatives available.