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 […]

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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: […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com

Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Hot topics WHO guidelines for treatment of cancer pain published The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published ‘Guidelines for the pharmacological and radiotherapeutic management of cancer pain in adults and adolescents. […]

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News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com

Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. SAFETY UPDATES CME T34 syringe pumps now require foam pads to be added to the battery compartment All Caesarea Medical Electronics (CME) T34 Ambulatory syringe pumps in the UK now need […]

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