Authors: Dr Simon Tavabie & Dr Katie Ball Marie Curie Hospice Hampstead Today we find ourselves in the middle of a pandemic. COVID-19 has swept across the globe with thousands dead, more seriously unwell, and a sense of anxiety and uncertainty within healthcare professions that is unlike anything we have seen. As the course […]
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The Plague revisited
By Dr Mark Taubert, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Velindre NHS Trust, Cardiff @DrMarkTaubert “I have no idea what’s awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. “I know that man is capable of great deeds. “But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints”- Albert Camus I read The […]
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: […]
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 […]