Marie Curie, the UK’s leading end of life charity, is today announcing funding to support research into improving palliative and end of life care in the community, including out-of-hours provision. The fund comes at a time when national health policy is increasingly focused on moving care out of hospital and into the community, with a growing emphasis on supporting more people to receive end of life care in the place they call home. The charity’s new research grants scheme, themed ‘Care close to