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Our palliative care service will be working in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support over the next three years to support local care home residents with palliative care needs.
Katie Yockney
The new advanced specialist practitioner post, funded by Macmillan Cancer Support, will help to identify people with palliative care needs who live in a care home in Barnsley with a focus on care planning to make sure that residents’ preferences and wishes are met.
The purpose of this project was to explore how registered community nurses experienced providing holistic end-of-life care and how having a structured end-of-life care pathway plan would help develop their knowledge and skills, particularly in respect of communication and their ability and confidence in providing evidence-based compassionate care. For some practitioners there exists a lack of confidence surrounding end of life care, which can result in nurses' reluctance to become involved and avoid engaging in those ‘difficult conversations’. Following implementation, early reviews from practice suggest that incorporating the 19 steps of the plan into the delivery of community-based care at end of life has enhanced practice and patient experience.
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Macmillan Cancer Support’s census shows:
The number of new cases per specialist cancer nurse is dramatically different across the country;
A greater proportion of specialist cancer nurses being paid in lower pay bands than in 2014;
Higher vacancy rates in specialist cancer nurse and cancer support worker roles than the UK average for health and social work
The proportion of specialist cancer nurses aged over 50 has increased;
Open access. The aim of this study was to explore first-line nurse managers’ perceptions of the challenges involved in decision-making concerning older patients who wish to die.
In children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD), discussions about end-of-life decisions (EoLDs) are comparatively common. Nurses play a crucial role in the care for these children, yet their involvement in EoLD discussions is largely unknown. The objective of this research was to investigate the involvement in the hospital of nurses in discussions with parents and physicians about EoLDs for children with PIMD. . To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
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To explore community nurses’ decision-making processes around the prescribing of anticipatory medications for people who are dying. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Following the success of the 2016 ‘Living Well to the Very End’ cohort, The Point of Care Foundation is recruiting 20 multidisciplinary clinical teams from health and care provider organisations across the UK, and is inviting you to join.
Funded by The Health Foundation, ‘Living Well to the Very End’ is an ambitious programme focusing on the care of people at the end of life, in generalist (rather than palliative care) settings.
Here is a round up under the key themes and areas identified by Simon Stevens with links to services and solutions [some digital] that work.
Includes sections for mental health services, dementia, end of life care, primary care, discharge planning/frailty.
As part of Haelo’s new film series Voices from the Front Line, our first film Nurses on Death and Dying, which premiered at the Dying Inspirationally session of Haelo Hosts ’16, documents front line nurses discussing the realities of palliative care.
For the NHS England 'Cancer in London' focus in September, we spoke to Carolyn Doyle - the Lead Nurse for the End of Life service in Basildon, Brentwood and Thurrock. Carolyn has over 20 years of experience in end of life care. She takes us through a day in the life of a Clinical Nurse Specialist and shows how to provide the best care for patients at end of life: