Author: Dr Ollie Minton, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Brighton, UK Dr Minton, our very own correspondent at European Association for Palliative Care conference events, rounds up the #EAPC2024 proceedings in Barcelona, and adds photographic evidence I got my Barcelona ‘Hola card’ which ensures free public transport for 72 hours first. Luckily it was not […]
Category: Social Media
Quick Response Palliative Care: Are wearable medical identification wristbands with QR code technology acceptable to palliative care patients?
Dr Elin Harding, Palliative Medicine Doctor, Clinical Research Fellow, Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff, UK ORCID 0009-0003-7100-7998 Dr Martha Thomas, Foundation Year 1 Doctor, Princess of Wales, Bridgend, UK 0009-0004-5908-8550 Dr Nikki Pease, Palliative Medicine Consultant, Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff, UK 0000-0002-8994-749 In the last year of life, palliative patients increasingly access emergency unscheduled care via […]
BMJ SPC Editor-in-chief receives Supportive Oncology Award
– NEWS – Prof Declan Walsh, editor-in-chief of BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, has received the Walther Cancer Foundation Endowed Supportive Oncology Award at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting in June. The award goes to distinguished leaders who have contributed significantly to palliative and supportive oncology care. Prof Walsh said: “It is an honour […]
EAPC 2023 – From our much delayed correspondent in Rotterdam
“Could be Rotterdam, or anywhere…” by Dr Ollie Minton, Palliative Care Consultant and roving reporter/content creator at the European Association for Palliative Care 18th World Congress in De Doelen, Rotterdam, Netherlands Uitbuiken is Dutch, and literally translates as ‘out-belly,’: it means to sit back and let your food go down. There’s no English equivalent, […]
Dealing with Media Interview Requests- How (not) to be heard
Author Prof. Mark Taubert, Consultant in Palliative Medicine amd Clinical Director, Velindre University NHS Trust, Cardiff, UK Do you know how best to prepare if you are asked for an interview by the media? Get it right, and it can do wonders for the subject matter you are passionate about and/or your organisation. But get […]
European Palliative Care Day
– NEWS – ‘One voice, one vision’ The first European Palliative Care Day, will take place on 15th June 2023, organized by the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC). The purpose of this new European day is to demonstrate the strength and unity of the EAPC network of member associations and increase awareness of palliative […]
Bagelology
Author: Dr Matthew Doré – Palliative Care Consultant in Northern Ireland Hospice and Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast on his reflections from the 2023 Palliative Care Congress in Edinburgh Is a bagel a bagel without the hole? The hole is nothing, an emptiness a void positioned in the middle of lovely cooked cinnamon dough. But, […]
Ninety-nine Balloons
Predictive powers are a sought after quality in palliative care – so how did Nena get it so right in 1983? by Prof. Mark Taubert, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Cardiff, UK For many Germans like me, who grew up in the Eighties, there’s been a sense of déjà vu. The international furore around suspicious […]
Doctor Informed Podcast: DNACPR
BMJ Podcast by BMJ Talk Medicine In this episode of the Doctor Informed podcast, the topic of discussion is Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) decisions. The panel, which includes a patient, reflect on the importance of clinicians holding discussions about future end-of-life care as a way of informing and giving choices. The conversation […]
They told me not to go: Flat Holm Island, Wales
by Mark Taubert, Palliative Care Consultant, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom Twitter: @ProfMarkTaubert A trip to a remote island with a derelict cholera hospital, to record a National Heritage Lottery funded audio podcast about pandemics, palliative care and isolation, inadvertently turns into an adventure. Flat Holm, or ‘Ynys Echni’, its Welsh name, is […]