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...In my 25 years of experience of palliative care in charity-run community and hospice-based charities, active treatment was used to good effect to provide a few quality weeks and months to those living with...
...“well-funded, accessible, high-quality palliative care for all”....
...Lilah Raptopoulos Anne retired recently after more than 45 years as a palliative care nurse. Her career has spanned ten nursing homes and hospices across the UK. She’s a pro....
...Professor Thijs Merkx, a surgeon who runs the Netherlands’ Comprehensive Cancer Organisation, which oversees research into oncological and palliative care said that 16 years ago the government had chosen...
...“I would hate to see Grail just sort of get passed around like a hot potato to people who don’t know how to manage or take care of it.”...
..., palliative care centres and care homes....
...And I would expect, between now and the end of the decade, truly comprehensive launches — like a console where there is an ecosystem and there is hardware that just works — to happen....
...Bill Hulme, medical director at the St Leonard’s Hospice in York, recounted two incidents last weekend where patients were left waiting as palliative care nurses scrambled to obtain prescriptions for controlled...
...The number of people needing palliative care is expected to rise by 42 per cent by 2040. “And there’s just no plan in place currently for meeting that level of demand,” she said....
...In fairness, the LCP was designed to bring hospice-style palliative care into NHS hospitals....
...However, the contingency planning was welcomed by Craig Beaumont, chief of external affairs at the Federation of Small Businesses, who said that “for too long, comprehensive testing has not been prioritised...
...Palliative care experts stress that no one does this perfectly — but in my view, we should at least try....
...The FT reported two weeks ago that hospice care workers had waited “hours” for pain relief for two distressed coronavirus victims....
...“Coronavirus is pushing us to the limit as we try to hold on to to the ethos and practice of palliative care,” said Ms Walford, urging families to understand that demanding intensive care or hospital treatment...
...Dear Life: A Doctor’s Story of Love and Loss Rachel Clarke, Little, Brown, RRP£16.99 As a palliative care doctor, Clarke looks after those who have come to the end of the medical road....
...The popular heritage website has over the past four decades evolved from a genealogical magazine into a comprehensive database with 3m users eager to find out where they came from....
...Under the railway arches in Herne Hill, South London Makerspace, a community workshop, has made about 1,000 face shields for care homes and hospices in the area....
...“Early palliative care for people with certain kinds of cancer improves prognosis,” maintains George....
...Clarke is a palliative care doctor whose warm and empathetic account affirms that a hospice is all about life, not death....
...“You’d think . . . that perhaps children’s palliative care would be further up [the] agenda,” she says....
...But improving NHS care requires an interest in the details. If there is a problem in palliative care hospices, it will not be fixed by improving staffing in hospitals....
...when refined and adapted by the great chemical companies on which our palliative care and survival depend....
...But the best advice we received was from one of the palliative care nurses, a remarkable woman whose job has made her painfully aware of the last regrets of the dying....
...Decades later, Ms Wojcicki intervened when she believed her grandmother was being needlessly put in a hospice to die. “I paged every doctor until the CEO called and said, ‘who are you?...
...“When you look at the number of people who need palliative care services and the palliative care specialists out there, the gap is enormous,” says David Casarett, professor of medicine and director of hospice...
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