AmyWebb

Oncology Advanced Clinical Practitioner with a passion for ensuring early access to Palliative Medicine, and advocating for Advance Care Planning.

[End of Life Doula UK @eoldoulaUK]

We strongly support the recommendations of @AGoodDeath latest report. You can read the report in full here https://t.co/GNbGFYrukm
#compassionindying #eolduk

[Brian Dolan OBE, RMN, RGN @BrianwDolan]

'Talking about dying won’t make it more likely. Death rates remain a stubborn 100% despite medical advances, a rate that looks unlikely to change'.
Fab piece by @drkathrynmannix on new study of (over) investigation of pts who die <6mths later
#Last1000Days
https://t.co/BKdwwfBa8g

[Richard Berman @bermandr2]

A fab article from
@Telegraph
today raising the importance of good #supportiveoncology 👇

https://t.co/wY7e80mRVZ

@TheChristieNHS

@CancerCareMASCC

@RCRadiologists

@RCPhysicians

@DanielMonnery

@drol007

@MattPalliative

@ash375

@drjenscaife

[Jo Evans @OncoloJo]

Dr Ollie Minton on shared decision making in emergency cancer presentations.

2/3 of these patients will die within a year. Plan for the best, prepare for the worse - gives patients the best of everything in a pragmatic and patient centred way.
@OncologyForum

[Elaine Boland @elaineboland17]

Patterns of acute hospital & specialist palliative care (SPC) use among people with non-curative upper gastrointestinal cancer showed less likelihood of hospital re-admissions if patients were referred to the hospital SPC team⁦ @DrFlissMurtagh⁩ https://t.co/NjtpxK38zT

[AmyWebb @webbaamy]

Crazy. If only hospices had proper investment and greater number of beds. Makes asking someone about their preferred place of dying a slightly pointless exercise.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

Another important and still very much live issue I wrote up for @thetimes

Hospices face turning dying patients away as costs rise without NHS support. FREE to read today
https://t.co/Y9R7tC4AMx

[Ramy Sedhom, MD, FASCO @ramsedhom]

New ASCO Guideline on Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer https://t.co/Zc4o5YJSy4

1. Early referral to SPECIALIZED PC leads to improved QOL, mood, higher likelihood of documenting EOL preferences
2. PC teams are fundamentally interdisciplinary
3. PC benefits caregivers emotionally/psychologically
4. Referral should be "timely" - do not wait until cessation of therapy
5. PC helps pts with hematologic malignancies and those on phase I trials

[James Norris @JamesNorris]

What is a digital legacy and how can you manage yours?
https://t.co/XHOdhhSlfj

@PilgrimsHospice #digitallegacy #hospice #hospiceeducation

[AmyWebb @webbaamy]

What an amazing final message 💔

[BBC Breakfast @BBCBreakfast]

'By the time that you watch this I will no longer be here'

A poignant final message from the Leeds Rhinos legend and MND campaigner recorded before his death for a special BBC documentary 'There's Only One Rob Burrow'

@BBCOne @BBCiPlayer

[Arif Kamal MD, MBA, MHS @arifkamalmd]

For the people in the back. @ASCOPres says during presidential address that palliative and supportive care must be woven into all of cancer care.

A first. Palliative care on the main stage. #hapc

[My Future Care @MyFutureCareUK]

"It's people who change lives." @tommyNtour sends out a passionate rallying cry for the #WhatMattersToYou movement.
@PalliativeNNUH #PalliativeCare #DMAW2024

[Clare Fuller RGN MSc @ClareFuller17]

Beautiful explanation by @SammyWinemaker & @HSeowPhD -
teaching everyone the skills to have a better illness experience. Unlocking
the 7 keys
https://t.co/w7FdQN8yft
#DMAW24

[Kathryn Mannix @drkathrynmannix]

About how other clinicians refer (or not) to palliative care...
The genius of @DrJRubenstein, animating a conversation of desperation we held a few weeks ago.
I'm very proud of this one.
🔥if this sounds familiar
✋🏽if you plan to take this advice

https://t.co/GAyvahjSph

[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

The fifth vital sign? Nurse worry predicts inpatient deterioration within 24 hours

https://t.co/Zf6Ps5ISsB

[Mark Hazelwood (mostly on Bluesky) @Palliative_Scot]

I've written a piece on the relationship between end of life and the future of the NHS. Part of the #NHS2048 @reformscotland series on how the NHS can be sustained and improved.

[@andyheeps.bsky.social @andyheeps]

Great paper from @UHSussex @drol007 and team - ⬆⬆ unplanned ED use in last 90 days of life regardless of condition; 10 primary care contacts in last yr ⬇ likelihood of death in 🏥; palliative care registers don’t impact on dying in 🏥 but do ⬇ unplanned emergency admissions

[Prof Ollie Minton @drol007]

As doctors, we are failing to put patients’ needs first, causing harm at the end of life | Death and dying | The Guardian https://t.co/J9JkUi9XWX

[Kathryn Mannix @drkathrynmannix]

Lovely to chat to @DrJRubenstein this week.
Here's his breakthrough short video, ICYMI.

How many times have you avoided a necessary palliative care conversation 'in case it upsets people'?
https://t.co/hpBCYV1Iaa

[NNUHPalliativeCare @PalliativeNNUH]

So excited to be an event at the first UK National Advance Care Plan Day 2024 @ACPDay2024 still a few tickets left for the inperson conference and to livestreaming #AdvanceCarePlanning

[AmyWebb @webbaamy]

@drkathrynmannix @DrJRubenstein Love this video. It's so true. Imagine how many more patients could access early palliative care if health care professionals outside of palliative care weren't afraid to approach the subject.
I find patients and their families are usually so grateful for open conversations.