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 Title contributed by Miss Katie Scott I’ve never been good at goodbyes. When I changed jobs I tried to disappear Slip silently away before the party poppers Were popped. When caught […]
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Dealing with Media Interview Requests- How (not) to be heard
Author Prof. Mark Taubert, Consultant in Palliative Medicine amd Clinical Director, Velindre University NHS Trust, Cardiff, UK Do you know how best to prepare if you are asked for an interview by the media? Get it right, and it can do wonders for the subject matter you are passionate about and/or your organisation. But get […]
NHS Wales Message In A Bottle Scheme
– NEWS – How can an individual’s fridge help in alerting paramedics to important care plans? Here, we describe a project that has been running in Wales for several years. Paramedics from Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust (WAST) are increasingly called to palliative care patients at a point of sudden deterioration, or crisis. The […]
European Palliative Care Day
– NEWS – ‘One voice, one vision’ The first European Palliative Care Day, will take place on 15th June 2023, organized by the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC). The purpose of this new European day is to demonstrate the strength and unity of the EAPC network of member associations and increase awareness of palliative […]
People aren’t avocados.
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’m told that the problem with avocados is that they sit on the shelf for ages not quite ripe, then they ripen for a day and then they spend their remaining […]
Dying Matters Awareness Week: Dr. Rachel Clarke in conversation with Prof. Mark Taubert
– NEWS – A special recorded webinar for Dying Matters Awareness Week 2023. Dr Rachel Clarke and Professor Mark Taubert discuss how to help people at the end of life have as full and rich a life as possible, the challenges of living in the face of death and the transformative power of human stories […]
The Palliative Times
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 Should we see CPR as a form of end of life care? In today’s issue we have focused on a matter of life and death; CPR. CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation has […]
Quick thoughts on Westerns.
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 die, I won’t enjoy the things I know. But then I guess I won’t know, That When I’m dead. I feel like dying will be deafening But am I […]
A Quality Improvement Project looking at written Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation decisions
Authors Prof. Mark Taubert, Consultant in Palliative Medicine and national strategic lead Advance & Future Care Planning, Wales Dr. Ellen Haire, palliative care doctor and researcher, Cardiff University, Wales Mr. Alan Buckle, patient/carer representative on All Wales Advance & Future Care Planning Group which oversees DNACPR policy for NHS Wales Introduction In the United […]
Bagelology
Author: Dr Matthew Doré – Palliative Care Consultant in Northern Ireland Hospice and Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast on his reflections from the 2023 Palliative Care Congress in Edinburgh Is a bagel a bagel without the hole? The hole is nothing, an emptiness a void positioned in the middle of lovely cooked cinnamon dough. But, […]