By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 Last night I dreamed of a consultation. It wasn’t a real patient that I was recalling but rather an amalgamation of patient stories from the day that had infiltrated my subconscious. […]
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Be complex, be palliative
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 Reporting for The Palliative Times, Our guest reporter Dr Oje Snawkih writes: The new advert for palliative medicine trainees has been a huge success. This follows a dramatic fall in training […]
The Victorian assisted suicide experience and its implications
Author: Hon. Robert Clark, former Attorney-General and MP, Victoria, Australia. Introduction The experience of Victoria, Australia, has been cited in the United Kingdom debate as a shining example of how an assisted suicide regime can work well. I demonstrate here that this is not so, and set out some implications of the Victorian experience. The […]
Could QR-Based Information Sharing Platforms Be Acceptable to Specialist Nurses for Palliative Care Patients?
Authors: Dr. Caitlin Cahill – Junior Clinical Fellow in Palliative Care, Velindre University NHS Trust, United Kingdom Dr. Stephanie Sivell – Research Fellow, Marie Curie Research Centre, Division of Population Medicine, Cardiff University, UK Prof. Nikki Pease – Professor of Palliative Medicine, Velindre University NHS Trust and Cardiff University, UK Introduction: The Care Quality Commission […]
The Well
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 You were stillness A Well of depthless inactivity Amongst the motion Frenetic concentration Blue dress staring at lit screens Beside you Not involving you Your stillness a stark wall Of non-involvement […]
Could assisted dying for ‘terminal anorexia’ be coming to the NHS?
Author: Chelsea Roff Chelsea is Executive Director of Eat Breathe Thrive, a non-profit organisation that works to help people recover from eating disorders. Connect on X and LinkedIn. For an audio version of this post, please click here Introduction: When I first learned about a physician in Colorado helping patients with eating disorders die by […]
The rock and the crime.
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 Thank you for coming- I Have a crime to report! Only yesterday I was sitting here as I do since I first rolled down The days merge with the seasons, But […]
Discrimination-driven deaths – Analysing Ontario Coroner Reports on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Author: Dr. Ramona Coelho, Family Physician; Senior Fellow of Domestic and Health Policy at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute; Member of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Death Review Committee; Ontario, Canada. New – Listen to this post on Spotify, read by the author: Introduction: As a family physician in Ontario, Canada, my practice largely serves marginalised groups: […]
My Tower. Your heart.
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 The Wood of simple Words was first, the construction began Strong and supple built upon Simplicity- Mother and Father It felt strong and formed so much That first timber warped Too […]
The Big Conversation: Future Care Planning
Dr Aoife Gleeson, Palliative Care Consultant, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABHUB), Newport, UK Aoife.Gleeson@wales.nhs.uk Dr Michael Pynn, Consultant Respiratory Physician, ABUHB, UK Dr Abigail Townsend, Resident Doctor Core Training 1, ABUHB, UK ‘The Big Conversation: Future Care Planning’ was a public event organised by Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB), held on 20th […]