On the resignation of the Chief Executive, and in agreement with the hospice Senior Management Team, the Board took the decision to introduce a new and dynamic leadership structure. The Collaborative ...
Connect, care, create: practical framework for physical environment design for person-centred palliative care ...
Background The number of patients dying in hospital continues to remain high. One of the challenges in combating this is deciding when to actively manage a patient and when to withhold/withdraw ...
Introduction Primary care has a central role in palliative and end of life care: 45.6% of deaths in England and Wales occur under the care of primary care teams at home or in care homes. The Community ...
Background St Christopher’s Hospice provided a community palliative care service to 7,500 patients in 2022–2023 (St Christopher’s. Quality account: 2022–2023). During which time a local Clinical ...
Correspondence to Dr Kenro Hirata, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan; kenro916{at}gmail.com ...
Objectives To examine whether use of a hand-held fan (‘fan’) improves breathlessness and increases physical activity. Methods A secondary exploratory analysis using pooled data from the fan arms of ...
Background Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, an estimated 10–20% of the UK population died in the intensive care unit (ICU). 1 Approximately 70% of these deaths occur after decisions to withhold or ...
Background Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is a key national policy agenda (Department of Health and Social Care. UK 5-year action plan for antimicrobial resistance 2019 to 2024. GOV.UK [internet].
Background 37.5% of deaths in our area occur in hospital. There are known high unmet needs of adult patients dying in hospital, this unmet need can be reduced by using an individualised care plan and ...
Prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Woodlands Hospice Wellbeing and Support Centre ran several regular groups plus nurse-led clinics for patients well enough to attend the hospice. When the ...
Background PLACE is an NHS Improvement Initiative which was introduced in 2013. It assesses the quality of an organisation’s environment, putting patients’ views at the forefront to assess how the ...
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