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 & […]
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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 […]
Songs in the key of Life
by Dr Oliver Minton @drol007 and Dr Mark Taubert @DrMarkTaubert Artistic imagery to depict palliative care was the focus of a recent mysterious blog on the BMJ SPCare blog site, and generated much discussion on social media. The theme of this week’s blog is music. A recent music and memory series on BBC Radio 3 reminded […]
Public Image Limited
Free Images In Palliative Care Tired of Trees, Autumn Leaves and Hands? Feel free to use these. No Copyright, no charge, help yourself. The Palliative Skateboard. Brought to you by a few people, including: https://www.instagram.com/pmillustration/ & @Image_wurkz & @DrMarkTaubert Other Images you may use free of copyright: […]
That was the week that was – The @NHS account takeover!
by Dr Ollie Minton Consultant in Palliative Medicine, London, UK Yes, yes, I know I live in an echo chamber/social media bubble and the internet is full of fake news,but unless I imagined the whole experience I was given control of the @NHS twitter account (https://twitter.com/nhs?lang=en) for the week of the 28th August. The […]