Workforce 2014 Survey Analysis Now Available
APM Workforce Commentary 2015 2014 Workforce Survey Analysis (appendix 1)
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DetailsAssisted 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…
DetailsProfessor Rob George BBC Radio 4 – Today Show Date: 29 July 2015 Link: http://bbc.in/1gZpsCJ Listen from: 01:14:06 – 01:19:00
DetailsConclusions 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…
DetailsEthics 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…
DetailsOver 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…
DetailsMarie Curie is calling for healthcare professionals to receive further training and development in palliative care to ensure that everyone with a terminal illness gets the care and support that they need. In a new report launched today, ‘Triggers for Palliative Care’, the charity shows there is limited understanding of what palliative care can do, who it…
DetailsProfessor Rob George, FRCP, President, Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain & Ireland had a letter published in the Times on 4 June (reproduced here as the Times is subscription only): ‘The courts, not doctors, should rule on assisted dying, should we decide to tread this dangerous path’ “Sir, It is for good reason…
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