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P-218 A collaborative chief executive office
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 ...
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Treatment escalation plans – a tool to aid end of life decision making?
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 ...
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13 What works, for whom and in which circumstances when implementing the namaste advanced dementia care programme in the home setting?
Introduction The Namaste Advanced Demntia Care Programme is a holistic, novel approach based on the five senses, aimed at evoking an emotional response and providing positive ways of communicating ...
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P-68 Person centred care through the lens of the lantern model: using patient outcome measures to evaluate community working in London
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 ...
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P-219 Keeping an eye: nurse- led telephone surveillance in the hospice setting
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 ...
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Subcutaneous furosemide in advanced heart failure: has clinical practice run ahead of the evidence base?
1 Department of Cardiology, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK; National Clinical Lead, NHS Heart Improvement. 2 Department of Health Sciences, Hull York Medical School, University ...