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 I watched you get cancer, And sadness became a sister to me. Each birthday became a goal But every time the cake came out you’d say no Wordlessly I thought you’d […]
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To palliate or not to palliate.
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 year is 2030. It all started with the most innocuous of phrases: ‘palliation’. A simplified way of saying that someone was dying. At least that’s what everyone thought. Of course […]
Being made 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 Completed my will today, Said good bye To the cat And cancelled the milk. Need to call my solicitor later And the vicar, I’m not religious But the family has always […]
Newsletter for the Sapporo Conference in Japan for Palliative and Supportive Care in Cancer (SCPSC)
The History of the Conference The Sapporo Conference for Palliative and Supportive Care in Cancer (SCPSC) was first held in in Sapporo, Japan in 2014. Subsequently, the 2nd conference was held in 2017, with the 3rd/4th Joint SCPSC successfully held from April 27-29, 2023, after overcoming a number of delays resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. […]
Moving Mountains: Virtual Reality in Palliative Care. By Sarah Beauclerk
The proverb, ‘If the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain’ speaks of seeking an alternative if the wished-for reality is not possible. But what if Muhammad is too ill to go to the mountain? In today’s fast-moving era of extending reality through technology, can a virtual mountain, or other […]
The value of Care.
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 When I purchased my Toaster- don’t laugh, I looked -at all of Google’s best (Free) reviews, Two weeks I persisted In the search for the right one. At two weeks in, […]
Quick Response Palliative Care: Are wearable medical identification wristbands with QR code technology acceptable to palliative care patients?
Dr Elin Harding, Palliative Medicine Doctor, Clinical Research Fellow, Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff, UK ORCID 0009-0003-7100-7998 Dr Martha Thomas, Foundation Year 1 Doctor, Princess of Wales, Bridgend, UK 0009-0004-5908-8550 Dr Nikki Pease, Palliative Medicine Consultant, Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff, UK 0000-0002-8994-749 In the last year of life, palliative patients increasingly access emergency unscheduled care via […]
Harlington Hospice and MyWishes launch Wellbeing Hub on Hospice Care Week 2023, to empower Hillingdon residents’ overall feelings of wellbeing
Harlington Hospice is excited to announce a partnership with MyWishes to launch the Digital Wellbeing Hub, for this year’s Hospice Care Week. This innovative offering provides a unique platform that seeks to empower and improve the overall wellbeing of people living in and around Hillingdon. A video highlighting some of the wellbeing hub’s features can […]
Say you have to go
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 Say you have to go, Tell me, then I shall know. We left unsaid Always the words crouched Hidden jungle cats Between the forest trees of triviality Constructed of words and […]
What evidence is needed for better end of life experiences; what questions should research address? By Dr Sabine Best and Jodie Crooks
Some might remember the first time we asked that question in 2014. Marie Curie and many funding partners and stakeholders worked with the James Lind Alliance (JLA) on the Palliative and end of life care Priority Setting Partnership (PeolcPSP) with the express aim to hear from patients, carers and health and social care professionals about […]