By Rebecca Houghton (fourth year medical student, Newcastle University) and Dr Lily Lamb FRCGP MBBS MMedEd(GP, medical education researcher and undergraduate educator, Newcastle University) Introduction: Last month the Terminally Ill Adults: End of Life Bill passed its third reading in the UK House of Commons. In the next four years […]
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Where does palliative care fit in the national ten year healthcare plan for England?
By Dr. Suzanne Kite, MbCHB, BMedSci, MA, FRCP President, Association for Palliative Medicine The Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3297-1042 X @APMPosttweets The long awaited National Health Service (NHS) 10 yr plan for England has been published (1), and reactions and commentaries across the health and social care sector have been posted. There is broad […]
What did a Welsh Spring Teach Me About Palliative Care?
By Kirstine Bøndergaard, MD, PhD Student Palliative Care Research Aarhus, Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark ORCID-iD: 0009-0009-7877-5934 LinkedIn: Kirstine Boendergaard Follow: CASEMED DENMARK CASEMED Publications: https://casemed.webnode.dk/ From April through mid-May 2025, I spent six weeks on a research stay in Cardiff, Wales, as part of my PhD project on palliative care for patients […]
The assisted dying era begins – what now for palliative care?
Dr Matthew Doré – Palliative Care Consultant Northern Ireland Hospice & Belfast Trust Hon Sec of APM and Co-lead Clin ECHO This is the question weighing heavily on the hearts of many palliative care physicians. The numbers of palliative care physicians are clear (5 surveys over 10 years): roughly 80% oppose assisted dying, 15% remain […]
French Palliative Care Congress 2025 – 31ème congrès de la SFAP
Auteurs: Bernard Paternostre, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Praticien Hospitalier – Service de Médecine palliative et d’Accompagnement – CHU de Bordeaux – Chargé d’enseignement à l’Université de Bordeaux, France Etienne Hubert, bénévole d’accompagnement à la Maison Jeanne Garnier, Paris, France Plus de 3000 congressistes venant de France et d’une quinzaine de pays – infirmières, aide-soignantes, psychologues, […]
The value of using the African Palliative Outcome Scale in community care in Kenya
By Stella Rithara, Elizabeth Ng’uono Odalo, Asaph Kinyanjui, Catherine Nelson and Dr Sally Hull Take Home Messages: The APCA-POS tool can be used effectively in routine community hospice care in Kenya, where care is mainly provided by community health workers. All the teams gained from ‘uncovering’ needs which were previously unrecognised. Patient’s experience of pain, […]
Exploring the unknown
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 At a recent family event a relative explained in long suffering terms how no-one knew why she had a persistent, low level tachycardia at times. The issue appears benign and this […]
Sapporo Winter Newsletter
Author: Dr. Kunihiko Ishitani President of The International Research Society of the Sapporo Conference for Palliative and Supportive Care in Cancer President, Higashi Sapporo Hospital, Japan As the saying goes, “time flies like an arrow,” and before we know it the 5th Sapporo Conference for Palliative and Supportive Care in Cancer (SCPSC) will be upon […]
Unconscious competence
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 Last night I dreamed of a consultation. It wasn’t a real patient that I was recalling but rather an amalgamation of patient stories from the day that had infiltrated my subconscious. […]
Be complex, be palliative
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 Reporting for The Palliative Times, Our guest reporter Dr Oje Snawkih writes: The new advert for palliative medicine trainees has been a huge success. This follows a dramatic fall in training […]