My mum died yesterday. She was receiving end of life care at home for stage 4 adenocarcinoma of the lung. She was getting very agitated in the last 24 hours and when we called the community nursing team there was no sense of urgency or compassion. On one occasion we had to wait 5hours for a visit to give medication to relieve her symptoms. In the end I had to call the paramedics. The image of her so distressed looking terrified is torturing me and I’m so upset that she was let down so badly.