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 ...
Objective This study aimed to evaluate factors affecting nutrition and weight loss in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) undergoing radiotherapy (RT) and investigate the effect of nurse-led ...
Objectives To compare the incidence of febrile neutropenia (FN) and chemotherapy delays (CD) due to neutropenia in chemotherapy cycles in which pegfilgrastim (PGF) was administered on the same day (D0 ...
Objectives To assess the feasibility, safety and preliminary efficacy of psilocybin-assisted therapy (PAT) for demoralisation in terminally ill patients receiving home hospice care. Methods In this ...
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 ...
Objectives Hospitals remain the most common place of death in the UK, with 30% of inpatients in their last year of life. National policies emphasise early identification and proactive planning to ...
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