About Us

Palliativebooks.com is operated by palliativedrugs.com Ltd, who also provide www.palliativedrugs.com for health professionals. This site contains essential, comprehensive and independent information about the use of drugs in palliative care. It highlights drugs given for unlicensed indications or by unlicensed routes and the administration of multiple drugs by continuous subcutaneous infusion. In addition there is a bulletin board and a monthly newsletter.

Palliativedrugs.com Ltd. was founded in 2000 by Robert Twycross and Andrew Wilcock in order to promote and disseminate information about the use of drugs in palliative care, through the website and book versions of the Palliative Care Formulary. One aim is to help fund research and education initiatives in Palliative care emanating from Oxford and Nottingham.