To ensure end-of-life care is the best it can be teams at @marymountcork & @CUH_Cork introduced a care planning form, checklist & staff training to improve how dying patients and families are supported.
📰https://t.co/DPf56OrMT1
@John_Dabell Such a great way with words John - it’s more about the ‘grit than grim’ ‘focus on the ‘hopelines than the deadlines’ - Thanku for your inspiration
Our Macmillan Unit has been reaccredited with the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark which recognises the unit's commitment to meeting patients' palliative care needs 👏
The Health Minister & staff came together to celebrate this huge achievement 🎉
#DyingMattersWeek@healthdpt
"If we’re serious about restoring meaningful continuity we need to make full time (or near full time) work a more attractive and viable option."
@RammyaMathew asks: how do we make general practice a job that doctors can sustainably commit to?
https://t.co/GyjC67tiK2
The President and Lay Leader of the Methodist Church in Ireland have extended the “sympathies and prayers of the Irish Methodist people” upon learning of the death of Pope Francis.
→ Read in full: https://t.co/4x6Inv88AG
Congratulations @MariaBe19750692 on your published article - available via @healthcarelib in the most recent issue of Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice!
To Anyone Dreading Mothering Sunday: This Is for You 💔🌸 @juliasamuelmbe
Mothering Sunday can be one of the most tender, painful days of the year if your mum has died — or if your child has.
The cards, the flowers, the smiling faces on social media — what feels like simple joy for others can land like a punch to the heart.
Everywhere you turn, there are reminders of what’s missing. Of who’s missing.
If this day is hard for you, please be gentle with yourself.
You don’t need to power through or pretend.
You don’t need to ‘white-knuckle’ your way to Monday.
Grief doesn’t vanish when ignored — but neither does love.
Your love for them and theirs for you, hasn’t gone anywhere. It lives on — today and every day.
So take the day gently. Switch off the noise if you need to — social media, group chats, even plans that feel too much.
Make space for what soothes you. Walk somewhere quiet. Sit with a friend who gets it. Curl up with a blanket and a book. Or do absolutely nothing. That’s allowed too.
Mark your love in a way that feels right for you:
👒 Wear something of theirs. 🥘 Cook their favourite meal. 🕯️ Light a candle. 💌 Write them a card. ♥️ Speak their name.
A small ritual can be a bridge — between now and then, between you and them.
However you choose to spend the day, let it be with kindness. You deserve that.
Your grief is real because your love is real.
And that love — however deep the ache — never dies. ♥️
#MothersDay #GriefAndLove #Remembering
Gary Lightbody's first book... file more under "Spiritual" than "Rock Biog"... Gary drops fascinating depth charges for the soul... sprinkled among the grief of losing his father... vulnerable and open as ever... I Surmise! https://t.co/NhI01DNxrb
I'm really excited that one of my scribbles has made the cut and is going to be hanging. My first! If you're in London, come along for a free look round to brighten your day. @UrbSketchLondon
10 months after a radical orchiectomy and chemotherapy for #testicularcancer I was informed yesterday that my surveillance CT scan doesn’t show any evidence of disease or metastases.
The relief is palpable 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
#alwaysthankful
We saw this play tonight at @4cornersbelfast Festival . It was brilliant - Nuala McKeever playing 3 parts in a great story of truth, love, promise...and home. Great festival, well done @Stoxo@MartinJMagill & colleagues. Check out https://t.co/7NcOIBSyCF