PallMedEd

Aim: Educate the next generation of clinicians, and the wider population, about the benefits of learning from your patients' lives through Palliative Medicine.

[PallMedEd @PallMedEd]

Great article and infographic to circulate!!

https://t.co/GKiZzHK2Hx

[PallMedEd @PallMedEd]

Great article and infographic to circulate!!

https://t.co/GKiZzHK2Hx

[Nikki da Costa @nmdacosta]

MPs chose to impose this Bill on Wales where the situation on palliative and hospice care is even worse. @CubbageEleri points out to the New Statesman a quarter of the population does not have access to hospice beds. Where is the choice for them?

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

“As a constituency MP … I heard on more than one occasion—and I wish this wasn’t the case but it’s categorically true—people speak in the most unsavoury terms about wanting family members not to be alive.”

[Nikki da Costa @nmdacosta]

The Health Secretary KNOWS Starmer's Bill is NOT safe. People will be "compelled to take up an assisted death" because of the state of NHS and palliative care.

He is an honest man but the Prime Minister has compelled his and every minister's silence.

🙏Josh Fenton-Glynn MP. Watch for the emphasis on 'workability' - not safety - at the end from the Permanent Secretary.

[Leeroy William @drleeroyw]

@kesleeman @ProfMarkTaubert @IloraFinlay

Meanwhile…
“There are 13 proposed amendments to the legislation”

https://t.co/2wFuVw0UQi

[PCOC @PCOCPallCare]

🎉 Happy National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA! 🎉

To celebrate, PCOC has asked several key members of the sector to reflect on how palliative care in Australia has evolved over the past 20 years.

@Pall_Care_Aus's CEO, Camilla Rowland provides her reflections:

[PCOC @PCOCPallCare]

🎉 For National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA, we reached out to a few significant members of the sector and asked them to reflect on the past 20 years of palliative care in Aus.

We received an incredibly insightful array of perspectives! Thank you to all who contributed👏

[PCOC @PCOCPallCare]

🌟 During National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA, it is incredibly valuable to hear the voices of patients/clients and their family and carers. 👨‍👩‍👦

Thank you again to our consumer representatives for sharing their perspective on the past 20yrs of palliative care in Aus! 👏

[PCOC @PCOCPallCare]

Initiating conversations with prominent figures in the sector during National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA was incredibly enlightening!
We’ve looked outward into the sector to gather perspectives, so we thought why not look inward within our PCOC team to share our insights ✨

[PCOC @PCOCPallCare]

We have thoroughly enjoyed reading the diversity of reflections we gathered for National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA, and we hope you have too. ☺️

For some of our final reflections, we would like to share the words of a few highly significant members of the sector...👏

[PCOC @PCOCPallCare]

A key pillar of PCOC’s governance are our Chief Investigators: Distinguished Professor Patsy Yates, Professor Kirsten Auret and Professor Katy Clark!

For National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA, they have all shared their thoughts on the evolution of palliative care in Aus. 🎉

[PallMedEd @PallMedEd]

Most RCPsych members “would not be willing to participate in an AD/AS service including determination of capacity or assessing mental disorder.”

“Bill does not address the more subtle forms of coercion such as where a person may internalise a feeling of being a burden.”

[Our duty of care UK @OurDutyOfCare]

The Royal College of Psychiatrists on the Leadbeater Bill: https://t.co/T07ei9KcGB

[PallMedEd @PallMedEd]

Many British Geriatrics Society “members are not confident that effective legal safeguards could be developed to protect older people... the risk for safeguard failure is at least moderate in a modern, well-run AD service which we find to be unacceptable.”
https://t.co/U0ZXCpb8M1

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

The Assisted Suicide Bill Committee has finished. My final speech here. This is not the Bill the public thought they were getting. It contradicts the NHS Act and the Hippocratic Oath. It's got worse, not better, in committee.

[Prof Katherine Sleeman @kesleeman]

This is a very important clip. On how the assisted dying bill will would require us to rewrite our suicide prevention strategy, and on wider societal implications including non-assisted suicide

[PallMedEd @PallMedEd]

https://t.co/hcKmokrkw9

[Prof. Mark Taubert @ProfMarkTaubert]

There's the cost/economic argument for #AssistedDying coming through. Last years of life most costly to healthcare, saving difficult to cost. Three studies attempted this, all indicated that AD laws can result in a substantial net reduction in healthcare costs 👇🧵

[Prof Katherine Sleeman @kesleeman]

An FoI to Dept Work and Pensions reveals 1 in 5 people given 6 months to live are still alive after three years.

Not surprising to any clinician.

But pretty relevant to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life)* Bill

*aka assisted dying

[Sunita_Puri @SunitaPuriMD]

Resharing my Atlantic piece about Jimmy Carter wanting to survive long enough to vote for Kamala. Dying cannot stop our yearning to make meaning, inspire and contribute. Death is generative. Who we are never ends. https://t.co/73uVnrWJMK