Ballet dancing, music & arts loving, palliative care doc; previous ACF, new Consultant & new mummy of 2 attempting to maintain interest in #breathlessness
Palliative medicine and nursing specialists can be expert guides, teachers, leaders, and developers of best practice, but improving end-of-life care is clearly everyone’s business, writes @mancunianmedic
https://t.co/2aWiTCl8zl
The Breathing, Thinking, Functioning model: an educational tool that can break the vicious cycle of chronic #breathlessness
Summary: https://t.co/l3pvxNvu6c
Article: @Nature_NPJ Prim Care Resp Med: https://t.co/uTQr2qfAeC
@PCRSUK
@BTSrespiratory
@RachelTuffnell@CamBtf
First international consensus. COVID-19: guidance on palliative care from a European Respiratory Society international task force https://t.co/XDfu8vuEAv
@wolfsonpallcare
Are you a clinician working with breathless patients? We would like to hear about your experience of the hand-held fan (whether or not you use the fan in your clinical practice). Follow this link for our 5-minute survey (11 Qs) @wolfsonpallcare https://t.co/re5a8mvZST
Good to see discussion about death and dying in the news: What we can all learn from this deathbed photo. (Spoiler alert: it’s actually a heartwarming story!) https://t.co/tUNWhg0emz
We're celebrating this morning after winning 'The Michael Howard Award' at the @hospiceuk awards last night in recognition of our innovative partnership with @CUH_NHS@addenbrookes Palliative Care Team & our #NurseLedBed scheme! To read more>>https://t.co/3trQQkYJVt 🍾
Emerging from #newborn haze and catching up on tweets to see if I’ve got any functioning #neurones left up there... it’s 50:50 at the mo #newmum#11weeksold
Volunteers are unequally distributed across end of life care settings. @cewalshe notes that her local hospice, 10 beds, has 700 volunteers. Her local care home, 60 beds, has 3 volunteers.
Made our @BBCBreakfast debut this morning talking about the importance of #CMV screening to prevent deafness in #newborn babies. Great work being done @Hearglueear. Thanks also for the lovely congrats @stephbreakfast & best wishes for your pregnancy!
This is a wonderful initiative: a 'make a wish' ambulance to fulfill end of life requests: see a mountain or a concert, go to the beach or a sports game, visit your family or the chip shop.
https://t.co/HfWrenUk64
They are willing to consider all requests.
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This is great news. Not just the money (which let’s face it is 2.5% of what the Hospice sector has to raise annually), but the message. Great that the PM acknowledges funding challenges in the hospice sector, and to have his support. Well done @TraceyBleakley@Peston@hospiceuk
Such a good article by @charlottechurch, with strong message about palliative care. By sharing her experience, she will make a difference to others. Also, she is totally right about ‘syringe drivers’. https://t.co/HJgY4oqW9d
Excellent letter by @SimonNoahEtkind in BMJ on assisted dying "The inequity of care provision at the end of life is neglected in the debate about assisted dying." https://t.co/EqoQtyQX0v
Imagine a world where the #NHS only part funded cardiology, where 3/4 angioplasties relied on second hand clothing and fun runs.
This is the reality for #EndOfLifeCare
Catching up with and enjoying the tweets from #EAPC2019 from the comfort of my sofa as am currently an enormous #pregnantlady so #thanks to those who took the time to tweet the key messages! There is some super #palliativecare#hpm#research going on.
The power of research! David Currow sharing the results of the largest #rct on the use of oxycodone for chronic breathlessness @EAPCvzw@Pall_Care_Aus#EAPC2019