During a short-term stay, veterans receive services such as respite care, rehabilitation, hospice, skilled nursing, and maintenance care for those waiting for placement in the community.
Jersey HospiceCare provides palliative nursingcare to islanders with cancer and motor neurone disease, with the majority of its patients - usually about 80 - being cared for at home.
Their letter says the new treatment pattern of palliative care, based on experience at a Liverpool hospice is being rolled out into hospitals andnursing homes.
It also said there were problems discharging patients to other hospitals, the community or nursing homes and said palliative care services were still limited, despite the opening of St Giles Hospice in 2011.