Introduction The population of minority ethnic groups in the UK is rapidly growing. A palliative care priority is therefore to ensure the availability of and access to care that meets the diverse ...
BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including Research Papers, Reviews and Educational pieces. The Author Information section provides specific ...
Access to palliative care services within patient-sharing networks for patients with breast, colorectal and non-small cell lung cancers ...
Introduction Duloxetine has previously been reported to be promising in the setting of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). The aim of this study was to conduct a comprehensive ...
Objective Various providers have piloted palliative virtual wards in the past 4 years. This survey provides the first aggregated data from across the UK. Method A cross-sectional online survey ...
Background One in four UK adults are deaf, rising to 80% of the over 70s (Akeroyd, Munro. Int J Audiol. 2024;63(9):659-660) – therefore deaf people represent a high proportion of those interacting ...
Background In oncology, early palliative care enhances quality of life and may increase survival; yet, because of resource limitations and overestimation of prognosis, referrals frequently happen late ...
Background Children’s hospices have been central to providing care for children with complex and palliative care needs in the UK since the first children’s hospice opened in Oxford in 1982. Since then ...
A 70–80 year-old man with ischaemic cardiomyopathy, advanced heart failure and chronic kidney disease is admitted with worsening shortness of breath. Over several days, his kidney function ...
Palliative and end-of-life care research funding: an analysis of current UK health research spending
Objectives Despite increasing demand for palliative and end-of-life care, the funding for research in this area has historically been low. Previous UK analyses in 2016 found that less than 0.3% of the ...
Background Palliative sedation therapy (PST) is used to treat refractory symptoms at the end of life. Phenobarbital is infrequently used as a third-line agent following unsuccessful symptom control ...
1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 School of Nursing, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to Dr Clare Gardiner, School of ...
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