EMBED-Care Newsletter 6, Summer 2021
Empowering Better End of Life Dementia Care Newsletter 6, Summer 2021 (part 2) Please click here to read the full newsletter.
EMBED-Care Summer Newsletter
EMBED-Care Empowering Better End of Life Dementia Care Summer 2021 newsletter (Part 1)
New end of life care elearning pathway for healthcare support workers
New end of life care elearning pathway for healthcare support workers A new learning path designed for health care assistants working with people near the end of life has been added to the End of Life Care for All (e-ELCA) elearning programme. The aim of the learning path is to provide health care assistants…
New e-learning programme on personalised care for people with cancer
New e-learning programme on personalised care for people with cancer now available Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare (HEE e-LfH) has worked in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support to develop a new programme to enhance colleagues’ knowledge and understanding of prehabilitation and rehabilitation in people with cancer. According to Macmillan, the number of people living…
Webinar: ‘What have we learnt about delivering high-quality palliative and end of life care in care homes during COVID-19?’
‘What have we learnt about delivering high-quality palliative and end of life care in care homes during COVID-19?’ The webinar will include talks from Professor Claire Goodman (University of Hertfordshire), Ms Anita Astle (Wren Hall Nursing home), Dr Reena Devi (University of Leeds), Dr Alys Griffiths (University of Liverpool), Dr Anna Bone (CSI), Professor Katherine…
New end of life care e-learning pathway for care workers
An updated learning path has been added to the e-learning programme End of Life Care for All (e-ELCA) designed for care workers supporting people near the end of life. The aim of the learning path is to provide care assistants with a greater understanding and confidence when caring for individuals near the end of life…
NICE guideline on Chronic pain (primary and secondary) in over 16s: assessment of all chronic pain and management of chronic primary pain
This final guideline has now been published on the NICE website. You can also find the supporting evidence, tools and resources as well as all the stakeholder comments that we received during consultation and the responses to these comments. The comments were invaluable in helping us to develop and refine the guideline. We have also…
Bereavement Care Research Publication – Supporting bereaved people in primary care and the community during and after the COVID-19 pandemic
Please click here to access the bereavement care research publication released by the School for Primary Care Research.
Updates to End of Life Care for All (e-ELCA) e-learning
A new session on the AMBER care bundle has been added to the End of Life Care for All (e-ELCA) e-learning programme. This new session describes what the care bundle is, why it was developed and how to use it in clinical practice. It also explains how the resource will help colleagues to provide high…
‘A silent epidemic of grief’: a survey of bereavement care provision in the UK and Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic
‘Silent epidemic of grief’ leaves bereaved and bereavement care practitioners struggling to cope The first major study of pandemic-related changes in bereavement care, from the University of Cambridge, describes the drastic changes in bereavement care that have occurred, amid a flood of demand for help from bereaved people. The researchers found that the switch to…