In this Forum article, the authors describe the ‘Small Steps, Big Vision Grab and Go Guide’ with its focus on children and young adults Authors: Holly Smith, Acting Matron – Children & Young Adults Service St Oswald’s Hospice Gosforth Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 1EE UK, Diane Nicholson, Sister, Children and Young Adults St Oswald’s Hospice […]
Category: Palliative Care
‘I’m an Oncologist from India – here’s what I gleaned from a palliative care placement in the UK’
Professor Punita Lal is an oncologist from India. Here, she describes a palliative care placement in the United Kingdom. She spent a month at Velindre Cancer Centre in Wales, where she experienced inpatient, outpatient, community and hospice palliative/supportive care. Providing comprehensive acute palliative cancer care – many models exist! Donning different hats is […]
Playful Palliative Care
Dr Matthew Doré – Palliative Care Consultant Northern Ireland Hospice & Belfast Trust Hon Sec of APM and Co-lead Clin ECHO Why is Bluey the greatest TV show you need to watch? This is not just me saying this, IMTB (here) have consistently had it with the rating of 9.9 and is currently at number […]
What Matters Most: Cause, Preferred and Actual Location of Death for MND Patients in South Wales
Authors: Jasmine Reeve-Foster Jasmine is a final year undergraduate medical student currently intercalating in Psychology and Medicine iBSc at Cardiff University Dr. Siwan Seaman is Medical Director, Marie Curie Cymru and Consultant in Palliative Medicine Motor Neuron Disease (MND) is a life-limiting illness affecting 1 in 300 people in the UK. It is characterised […]
To palliate or not to palliate.
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 The year is 2030. It all started with the most innocuous of phrases: ‘palliation’. A simplified way of saying that someone was dying. At least that’s what everyone thought. Of course […]
Do you have range?
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 The following was recorded directly from an acting seminar in North Wales on how to act like a specialist doctor. The text has been presented in an easy to read format: […]
Controversy: A good death- tyranny or useful concept? By Libby Sallnow and Erica Borgstrom
The publication of a new paper has reignited the age-old debate on the term ‘a good death’. Here, we discuss some of the discussions that emerged as a consequence; Twitter was asked the question, ‘A good death: tyranny or useful concept?’ The responses were critical, varied, came from across the globe, and suggest there remains […]
The Palliative Times
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 Should we see CPR as a form of end of life care? In today’s issue we have focused on a matter of life and death; CPR. CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation has […]
How Edvard Munch helps unlock ‘the secret’ of death
Author: Christiaan A. Rhodius Designation: Elderly Care Physician / Consultant in Palliative Medicine Place of work: Hospice Bardo (Hoofddorp – the Netherlands) Email address crhodius@hospicebardo.nl LinkedIn […]