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: […]
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Advance and Future Care Planning in Wales – Consensus data from conference participants
Authors: Nikki Pease, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff, Wales Mark Taubert, National Strategic Lead for Advance/Future Care Planning, NHS Wales Introduction: “Shared Decision making should also include an ability to share the decisions that have been agreed on” In 2019, BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care featured a write-up of the proceedings of […]
Winning Hearts and Minds
Co-speciality supportive care pathways running in parallel with ‘standard’ care? A sustainable, effective and highly rated model of care for patients with advanced heart failure which has potential transferability to other non-cancer advanced stage conditions. by Dr Clea Atkinson, Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Bevan Commission Fellow, Velindre University NHS Trust and Cardiff and Vale […]
Advance care planning- How can it go wrong?
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 […]
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 […]