But Ciaran Devane, chief executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, said: "The proposed 'friends and family test' is a good start to highlight which hospitals need to improve their care but it is too basic to make real improvements on the ground.
"End-of-life care" has become a frequent subject of medical conferences and journal articles, and even the American Medical Association has acknowledged that too many dying patients suffer needlessly, and that the profession needs help to improve their care.
For too long we have seen year-on-year increases in prison suicide and there are worrying trends around children's mental health, too, with insufficient investment to improve their care".
This is a painful irony for Tim Kelsey, NHS England's director for patients and information; having launched Dr Foster to empower patients with data, the same patients are now attacking the use of that data to improve their care.
Family doctors will have to increase the number of appointments they offer and improve their care of older patients in order to share in a new £1bn NHS fund to overhaul crumbling GP surgeries.
Guardian Australia understands Turnbull is preparing to offer the states a total of $3.4bn over three years in interim health funding while the longer term reform is negotiated, and he and the health minister, Sussan Ley, will on Thursday announce a new plan to coordinate the health care of chronically-ill patients to improve their care and reduce their hospital admissions.
At a time when he said critics were making unsubstantiated claims that his plan would create government "death panels" to "pull the plug on grandma," Mr. Obama is trying to push back by convincing Americans that overhauling the system will improve their care by ending such industry practices as denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has reiterated his calls for GPs to improve their care for the elderly.
Yet, there have been no controlled trials of interventions specifically designed to improve their care and outcomes.
Founder Laura Hamilton's goal is to help mothers-to-be become smarter health care consumers while at the same time giving hospitals an incentive to improve their care.
