Compared with the more established hospice ward and home care hospice models, the model of ”hospice shared care” (HSC) for inpatients in acute-care setting has been noticed to have limitations and challenges in the real world situation in this country. Before the model of HSC is promoted to enlarge hospice care coverage for the particular population of cancer patients in their final year of life, the officially reported hospice utilization rate was just nearly 14%. In order to facilitate utilization of hospice services and to get hospice care concept across and offer patients with this option beyond the hospice ward, HSC is expected and adopted to boost the coverage rate hopefully to allow more patients with advanced cancer have better symptom management and better psycho-social-spiritual care in the end-of-life setting. This article also looks at the literature discussing roles of palliative care consultation service in the acute-care setting. Both the challenes and coping strategies for providing expertise and quality hospice shared care are delineated in this review.