Evaluation of Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems to support advance care planning for people living with life-threatening conditions (PREPARE): protocol for a multicentre observational study using routinely collected primary and secondary care data in England.

Introduction: Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems (EPaCCS) are electronic registers that aim to facilitate documentation and sharing of up-to-date information about patients' end-of-life preferences and plans for care among different health services. They aim to improve patients' experiences and outcomes and mitigate costs linked to undesired aggressive care. However, evidence on the equitable delivery of EPaCCS and the extent to which advance care planning (ACP) enhances end-of-life care remains sparse.

The BARCODE1 Pilot: a feasibility study of using germline single nucleotide polymorphisms to target prostate cancer screening.

Objectives: To assess the feasibility and uptake of a community-based prostate cancer (PCa) screening programme selecting men according to their genetic risk of PCa. To assess the uptake of PCa screening investigations by men invited for screening. The uptake of the pilot study would guide the opening of the larger BARCODE1 study recruiting 5000 men.