By Professor Declan Walsh, Hemby Family Endowed Chair in Supportive Oncology, North Carolina, USA The Department of Supportive Oncology at the Levine Cancer Institute (LCI) is seeking a Fellow to complete a comprehensive post-graduate academic year in their internationally recognized center for supportive care in cancer. About the Fellowship: • Train to become a next […]
Category: Social Media
Compassionate Cymru Wales: bold step towards better endings
by Lesley Bethell, steering group chair of Compassionate Cymru, Wales, UK Introduction Compassionate communities have been seen as one element of public health approaches to end of life care, driven by concerns around scarce resource allocation in the face of unmet need.(1) One of the drivers for shifting support towards public health here in Wales, […]
Survival of the Kindest – a Christmas Podcast
by Dr Julian Abel, Cornwall, UK What is the collective noun for a group of palliative care consultants? A reflection, a chatter? Perhaps a mob? Or a dollop? In fact, do you like ice-cream? Then read on. It is not often that we have the opportunity to sit down and discuss our working lives with […]
Slipping Through the NET
A blog by patient Sally Jenkins, Cardiff, UK Palliative versus end of life care, we all know they’re not the same, but even so, they’re often used synonymously. Nowhere is the need to distinguish between them more pressing than in the management of neuroendocrine cancers, known as NeuroEndocrine Tumours, or ‘NETs’. Arising from unusual neuroendocrine […]
The Development and Implementation of a National Covid-19 Hospital Guideline for Wales
Authors: Rhys Jeffries; Simon Barry; Laura Wallis; Chris Davies and Mark Taubert on behalf of the Respiratory Health Implementation Group Wales, the Institute of Clinical Science and Technology and the NHS Wales Health Collaborative, Cardiff, UK Guideline website: https://covid-19hospitalguideline.wales.nhs.uk/ Introduction: It became evident in early March 2020 that clinical practice in managing COVID-19 varied markedly […]
Using video messaging apps during pandemic isolation
How hospitals, hospices & other care facilities can use Video Calling apps, like Skype, to reduce isolation during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic By James Norris, Director of the Digital Legacy Association, London @JamesNorris Reviewed and edited by Mark Taubert, Consultant in Palliative Medicine and honorary Professor Cardiff University Updated 2021 prior to EAPC World Congress Introduction: […]
Simulation in Palliative Care Education
by Dr Geoff Wells Research Fellow in Medical Education, Registrar in Palliative Medicine , Brighton and Sussex Medical School It’s time to start preparing our medical graduates for death and dying – because it does matter. Perhaps the best place to start this blog is by describing my own experience, as inevitably this […]
Welsh Future Care Planning Conference 2019
Nikki Pease, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Cardiff, Wales Mark Taubert, National Strategic Lead for Advance/Future Care Planning, NHS Wales Alan Buckle, Patient Representative on National Advance/Future Care Planning Strategy Group for Wales Representatives from all parts of Wales gathered on a warm spring day at the Sophia Gardens Cricket Stadium, Pontcanna on Friday the […]
Feel the Bern: The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) 2018 research conference roundup, y’all!
by Dr Ollie Minton, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Brighton, UK I couldn’t get to Bournemouth for this year’s Association for Palliative Medicine conference so went for complete palliation (soins palliatifs, dude) in Switzerland, instead. The conference side-programme did not, on this occasion, involve a day visit to the Dignitas clinic, which I did point out […]
Serious Illness Conversations Cymru
by Dr Nikki Pease, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Velindre NHS Trust, Cardiff, Wales (Cymru) December 2016 saw the launch of the Serious Illness Conversation Cymru project. It is an all Wales project supported with funding from Welsh Government’s End of Life Care Board. The project, which held its pilot teaching event in December 2016 (picture […]