The SAGE & THYME for Advance Care Planning (ACP) workshop has been delivered fifty times around the UK.
Participant feedback (31% GPs) has demonstrated significantly increased confidence in starting an end of life care or advance care planning conversation and in responding to the patient’s concerns. 74% of workshop participants said that they definitely planned to change their practice as a result of the workshop.
A legal provision that obliges doctors to honour a patient’s “living will” refusing artificial nutrition and hydration seems to conflict with a Court of Protection practice direction stating that all cases concerning the withdrawal of life sustaining treatment from patients in a vegetative or minimally conscious state should go to court, a senior judge has pointed out.1
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 provides that a valid advance decision to refuse a specified treatment, made when the patient had capacity to make it, should be complied with by doctors … To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Lwing at HM Prison Norwich is not a conventional setting for healthcare. It is home to 15 prisoners with extra and palliative care needs, including dementia and cancer. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you requesting.
For the NHS England 'Cancer in London' focus in September, we spoke to Carolyn Doyle - the Lead Nurse for the End of Life service in Basildon, Brentwood and Thurrock. Carolyn has over 20 years of experience in end of life care. She takes us through a day in the life of a Clinical Nurse Specialist and shows how to provide the best care for patients at end of life:
We will not update the guideline at this time.
We will amend the guideline to replace recommendation 1.1.12 about opioid equivalence for transdermal patches with a cross-reference to the more recent guidance in 'Controlled drugs: safe use and management (2016) NICE guideline NG46'.
We will transfer the guideline to the static list because:
No evidence was identified that would impact on the current guidance and no major ongoing research has been identified as due to be published in the near future (that is, within the next 3–5 years).
A relatives room at University Hospitals of North Midlands has undergone a transformation to help provide relatives of palliative care patients a more comfortable experience during their stay in hospital.
This article is part of Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) Perspectives. In this series, commentaries from the past 2 years from a specific nursing theme are brought together and highlights are discussed. The topic for this edition is advance care planning and palliative care. From October 2014 to the October 2016 edition, 12 commentaries were published on the chosen topic. Key themes are extrapolated from these commentaries, and the implications for practice and future research are explored. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
We are looking for the following to take part in our Consultation survey:
Roles that will have some regular contact with people receiving end of life care - for example: Healthcare assistants/Care workers; General Practitioners; Doctors (not specialising in end of life care);
Occupational Therapists; Nurses; Social Workers; Leaders of community groups
Those in roles which frequently involve providing end of life care - for example: Healthcare assistants/Care workers in end of life care services; Doctors specialising in end of life care; Occupational Therapists working in end of life care services; Nurses working in end of life care services; Social Workers working in end of life care services;