Now we health workers know how empty Boris Johnson's 'clap for heroes' really was | Rachel Clarke
We ’ve had a traumatic year and lost patients and colleagues. But all he offers us is a derisory 1% pay offerRachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor and the author of Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of PandemicWhen the NHS saved his lifelast April, Boris Johnson could not have reacted more fulsomely on social media. “Our NHS is the beating heart of this country,” he waxed lyrical in a widely posted video. “It is the best of this country. It is unconquerable. It is powered by love.” The prime minister made a point of singling out two of his intensive care nurses by name, Luis Pitarma and Jenny McGee, who ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 5, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Rachel Clarke Tags: Nursing NHS Health Society Politics UK news Conservatives Coronavirus Infectious diseases Medical research Science World news Microbiology Source Type: news
South Africa: Dying Man Cross-Examined in Euthanasia Case
[GroundUp] A "crusader" for euthanasia who has been influenced by his palliative care doctor and co-litigator in a legal bid to legalise euthanisa in South Africa, is how Advocate Vas Soni, representing the ministers of Health and of Justice and the National Director of Public Prosecutions, who are all opposing the bid, characterised Diethelm Harck and Dr Suzanne Walterby. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 4, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
When should patients with dementia receive palliative care?
(Wiley) Patients with dementia may benefit from being referred to specialist palliative care--a branch of medicine that focuses on optimizing quality of life and providing relief from symptoms--but who should be referred, and when? A recent analysis of published studies on the topic found a lack of consensus regarding referral criteria for palliative care in patients with dementia. The results are published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Commentary on Nalls to Editor ’s Note: Palliative Wound Care for PALTC
(Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - March 1, 2021 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
Palliative Wound Care for PALTC
It is well-known that many residents in the post-acute and long-term care setting have contracted, suffered from, and succumbed to COVID-19. Lesser known is that many PALTC wound experts expect the rates of pressure injuries to increase due to the virus ’s impact on oxygen perfusion and the vascular system. These experts are encouraging PALTC clinicians to have candid conversations with patients and their responsible parties about the concept of maintenance and/or palliative wound care (Wound Manag Prev 2020;66:5–7). (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - February 27, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Victoria Nalls Source Type: news
Geriatric Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship: 2021-2022
The University of Minnesota/HealthPartners offers an exceptional opportunity for a multi-disciplinary Geriatric Orthopaedic Trauma fellowship. This fellowship is a twelve month unique training experience in the operative and clinical management of geriatric orthopaedic trauma patients. The fellowship will emphasize multidisciplinary aspects of geriatric orthopaedic patient care including operative and nonoperative trauma care, peri-prosthetic fracture reconstruction, bone health, and palliative care considerations. This will prepare you to build and efficiently run a geriatric fracture center. This fellowship is certified ...
Source: Orthogate - Latest News - February 18, 2021 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Featured Fellowship News Source Type: news
UCSF doctor and subject of a Netflix documentary launches palliative care startup to support caregivers and patients
Coronavirus has made nearly all of us reflect on life and death, and for those who are questioning whether their lives have any purpose or meaning, there's now a startup they can contact for support. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - February 17, 2021 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Brian Rinker Source Type: news
UCSF doctor and subject of a Netflix documentary launches palliative care startup to support caregivers and patients
Coronavirus has made nearly all of us reflect on life and death, and for those who are questioning whether their lives have any purpose or meaning, there's now a startup they can contact for support. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - February 17, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Brian Rinker Source Type: news
'I've walked in the room and they've asked, "Where's the real doctor?"'
Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng is a palliative care and intensive care doctor based in Ottawa who has faced racism. He mentors Black youth and is now on the board of directors at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - February 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada Source Type: news
Mexico ’s poor have little luck obtaining opioids intended for palliative care
If you ’re poor and terminally ill in southern Mexico, there’s far less chance you’ll get the painkillers you need for palliative care than your cousins in more prosperous regions, particularly those pharmacy-rich areas along Mexico–U.S. border, say UCLA researchers and colleagues who studied opioi d dispensing levels across the country.What ’s more, the researchers’ paper in the journalThe Lancet Public Health suggests it ’s likely that some of the opioids intended for Mexican citizens are ending up in American pockets.Despite a Mexican government initiative launched in 2015 to improve access to prescription...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 11, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Mexico's poor have little luck obtaining opioids intended for palliative care
(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Despite a Mexican government initiative to improve access to prescription opioids among palliative care patients, the country has seen only a marginal increase in dispensing levels, and inequities in dispensing have left many of the nation's poorest residents without comfort in their final days. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 11, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Humana partners with Hosparus on national trial
The partnership will test out whether or not a change to the benefits provided by certain insurers will improve hospice and palliative care. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - February 10, 2021 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Chris Larson Source Type: news
Oncotarget: Melatonin increases overall survival of prostate cancer patients
(Impact Journals LLC) 'The results of the use of melatonin drugs in palliative treatment of patients with end-stage prostate cancer are shown' (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 10, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Want to improve care for breast cancer patients? Listen to what they say on Twitter
FINDINGSInformation shared by women with metastatic breast cancer on social media platforms like Twitter may be a timely source of data for policymakers hoping to improve care and outcomes for these patients.UCLA researchers found that participants in a Twitter group chat about metastatic breast cancer identified a number of significant barriers to care, including communication gaps between health care providers and patients, delays in insurance authorizations for treatments and other procedures, insurance denials of palliative or specialized care, and challenges in obtaining disability benefits.Based on participants ’ o...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 2, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Daffodil Standards for care homes
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), in partnership with the end of life charity Marie Curie, have enhanced the 'Daffodil Standards' to ‘support GPs and their teams in providing consistently high-quality palliative and end of life care specifically focusing on older patients living in care homes’. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 1, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
