Making UK a better place to die: Patients in their final days present a unique challenge to carers and hospices http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/making-britain-a-better-place-to-die-patients-in-their-final-days-present-a-unique-challenge-to-a6723246.html
Marie Curie is releasing a YouGov survey which shows that the over 50s are concerned about end of life care in the UK. The findings coincide with the release of ‘The way we die now’, a collection of personal stories which feature the open and frank personal accounts of people affected by terminal illness across…
APM Workforce Commentary 2015 2014 Workforce Survey Analysis (appendix 1)
Assisted Dying Bill puts vulnerable people at risk without improving access to care Click here to listen to the interview featuring Robert Twycross: http://www.premier.org.uk/News/UK/Assisted-Dying-Bill-puts-vulnerable-people-at-risk-without-improving-access-to-care-say-experts Date: 9 September 2015 Time: 13:20
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Professor Robert George, the vice president of the Association for Palliative Medicine, said last week: “The problem with hospitals is that they are conveyor belts… where performance and outcomes are related to turnover rather than quality of care… Dying is a social and spiritual and cultural event and only part of that is to do…
Professor Rob George BBC Radio 4 – Today Show Date: 29 July 2015 Link: http://bbc.in/1gZpsCJ Listen from: 01:14:06 – 01:19:00
Conclusions Most hospices are using the DoLS legislation only when a patient needs restraint and not when they lose capacity at the end of life – in accordance with the advice from the Department of Health and the Law Society A small number of hospices are being more legalistic. The discussions about the legalisation have…
Ethics Committee Summary of Tracey Court of Appeal judgement 2014 – telling patients about DNAR decisions 1. No doctor is obliged to give futile treatments and attempted resuscitation is a treatment. 2. Document everythingon DNACPR form and in medical notes. Did you discuss DNACPR with patient? If not, why too ill, lost capacity, what specific harm you feared causing patient…
Over two thirds of physicians support seven day working – UK consultant physician and higher specialty trainee census, 2013/14 The Royal College of Physicians (London) is today publishing the full report of the 2013/14 census of consultant physicians and higher specialty trainees in the UK. The census measures the number of consultant physicians and higher…