Samei Huda highlights a recent RCT of antipsychotics for delirium palliative care, which suggests we need non-drug alternatives for this group of patients.
understanding how best to provide palliative care for frail older people with non-malignant conditions is an international priority. We aimed to develop a community-based episodic model of short-term integrated palliative and supportive care (SIPS) based on the views of service users and other key stakeholders in the United Kingdom. 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.
The Cancer Vanguard will develop programmes to raise public awareness and work collaboratively with partners in education, health and social care to shift the focus towards prevention and early diagnosis, to provide a recovery package to aid those living with and beyond cancer and to greatly improve care at the end of life.
Objective To assess the efficacy of active treatment targeted at underlying disease (TTD)/potentially curative treatments versus palliative care (PC) in improving overall survival (OS) in terminally ill patients. Open Access Article
The only certainty is that every one of us will die. Nothing else in healthcare in the UK applies to 100% of our population.” So stated Baroness Professor Finlay of Llandaff when she introduced the Access to Palliative Care Bill in the House of Lords.1 This was an apt reminder of the importance of good end-of-life care for every dying person and their loved ones, no matter where they die or which healthcare professionals are caring for them at the end of their life. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Objectives To understand how end-of-life (EoL) care for people with dementia is currently commissioned (ie, contracted) and organised, with a view to informing the development of commissioning guidance for good-quality community-based EoL care in dementia. Open Access Article
Commissioners are working on a plan to restart the process and the indicative timelines to complete both procurements. Patients will continue to be involved with the work of the programme and will work alongside commissioners as equal decision makers in meetings with bidders.
This event will look at what is known about end of life care for people with learning disabilities and what can be done to improve this. Topics to be covered include pain management for people with complex needs and the difference setting makes to end of life care outcomes.
There will be new data and research findings shared about end of life care for people with learning disabilities. Speakers include Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, who has extensive clinical and research experience in the field of learning disabilities and palliative care.
This event is aimed at clinicians from primary and secondary health care settings, palliative care services and learning disability services, commissioners and service managers, family members and paid supporters.
Families with dying children must be put at the heart of care, new guidance from NICE (The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) says.
We advise people working in health and social care to make sure mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, get the practical and emotional support they need to care for a family member at the end of life.
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.
NHS England have launched a new Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care website, a one stop shop for palliative and end of life care information.
EBN Perspectives brings together key issues from the commentaries in one of our nursing topic themes.
This article is part of Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) Perspectives. In this series, commentaries from the past 2 years from a specific nursing theme are brought together and highlights are discussed. The topic for this edition is advance care planning and palliative care. From October 2014 to the October 2016 edition, 12 commentaries were published on the chosen topic. Key themes are extrapolated from these commentaries, and the implications for practice and future research are explored. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Work to improve care for dying patients and their families at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has been enhanced with two specialist nurses starting work this month.
For patients with advanced cancer, several randomised controlled trials have shown that access to palliative care at least 6 months before death can improve symptoms, reduce unplanned hospital admissions, minimise aggressive cancer treatments and enable patients to make choices about their end-of-life care, including exercising the choice to die at home. This study determines in a UK population the duration of palliative care before death and explores influencing factors. Open Access Article