Dr Toby Dinnen GP Academic fellow at Cardiff University and Palliative care speciality doctor Bridgend Twitter @DRTDINNEN Email: dinnenta@cardiff.ac.uk Dr Dinnen summarises a recently published paper on Advance Care Planning pitfalls. Over the last two years I have had the opportunity to carry out research looking at the patient safety implications of advance care planning […]
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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 […]
From our very own correspondent, Dr Minton: The 16th EAPC World Congress in Berlin
by Dr Ollie Minton After my musings on Bern 2018 , many people were understandably desperate to read my digest of the 16th EAPC World Congress in Berlin, so here it is. Yes, a very large event took place in Berlin at the end of May 2019. The Palliateurs and the new EAPC Poetry & […]
Short Cuts
Effects of nutrition and physical exercise intervention in palliative cancer patients: A randomized controlled trial. Uster A, Ruehlin M, Mey S, Gisi D, Knols R, Imoberdorf R, Pless M, Ballmer PE. Clin Nutr. 2018 Aug;37(4):1202-1209 Over a 3-month period, 58 patients with advanced lung or gastrointestinal cancer received either the usual care or a ≥3 […]
When we used virtual reality cameras to create content for healthcare environments…
by Mark Harvey, Media Development Officer, Velindre Cancer Hospital, Cardiff and Mark Taubert, Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Velindre University NHS Trust Lessons learned from using 360 video in palliative care and oncology settings Introduction: In 2017 and 2018, a virtual reality (VR) library was […]
How Social Media expanded my world – by a bereaved carer
by Michael H Stone, Retired Non Clinical Private Individual I am not a very ‘social’ person: I wasn’t social before the events that led to my involvement in the debate about end-of-life care and behavior, and I am even less social since the events that changed my life– events that included 999 staff and my dead mother, events that […]
Compassionate Country Wales
In this blog, Mark Taubert talks to Julian Abel about Compassionate Communities and what a Compassionate Country Wales may look like. MT: Bore da, Julian, croeso y Gymru. Great to chat to you. Let’s get straight to the bare bones. Vaughan Gething, Cabinet Secretary for Health […]
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 […]