Haematology and palliative medicine: moving forward

The documentation of details on the provision of medical care for haematology patients in the palliative care setting not only provides useful baseline information for clinical consideration and debate, but signals that the scholarship in this area has come of age. Previously the research literature predominantly centred on the question of whether palliative medicine could or should be integrated into the care of haematology patients. The assumption is now in the affirmative and the concern becomes how best to effectively achieve this end.