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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...
...Dr Gillian Wright, a former palliative care registrar and member of the Our Duty of Care, a campaign group opposed to what it refers to as assisted suicide, has argued that societies should be focused on...
...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....
...“The most important difference between the philosophy in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe, and a major part of the world, is that here palliative medicine is not regarded as a separate discipline but...
..., palliative care centres and care homes....
...“He was up and about at breakfast time, had lunch, became feverish, short of breath and community palliative care nurses responded to the call....
...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....
...Only when she probed further did it become clear this entailed the withdrawal of fluid and nutrition. In fairness, the LCP was designed to bring hospice-style palliative care into NHS hospitals....
...“The more we realise that death is a very important part of life at an earlier age, the better we do at the end of life,” says Terrence Maag, medical director for home care, hospice and advance care planning...
...and unnecessary distress and pain” because of the UK’s laws on palliative drug control....
...The scale of the pandemic and the speed at which Covid-19 can affect patients have forced community care workers, GPs and palliative carers to accelerate difficult conversations on death and end-of-life...
...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 term “palliative care” implies pain management for sufferers of terminal illnesses, but also a lack of hope and giving up in the face of imminent death....
...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....
...when refined and adapted by the great chemical companies on which our palliative care and survival depend....
...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....
...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....
...“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...
...Not only does hospice care save money and reduce suffering, studies show it can also extend lives....
...Less than half of paediatric oncology units in low and medium income countries provide palliative care, according to a survey in 58 countries at the start of the decade....
...Hermione Elliott, a former nurse, midwife and counsellor who specialised in palliative care, working with terminally ill people at home and in hospices, pioneered a UK training course for people who want...
...Patients have to go through severe agony, and have access only when they are brought to palliative care units.”...
...This is the situation that the Liverpool Care Pathway, used across England and currently the subject of government consultation, and similar palliative plans try to address....
...Britain leads the world in palliative care, a discipline that owes much to the pioneering work of Dame Cicely Saunders, who founded the modern hospice movement in the 1960s, and the NHS commitment to care...
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