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Practice
End-of-life care for people dying from cardiovascular diseases
A report by the National End of Life Care Intelligence Network has identified the need to provide better access to end-of-life care for people with cardiovascular diseases
Learning from family and nurse narratives
Narratives from the Francis reports can guide the implementation of ethical leadership and improve the organisational culture of the NHS
End-of-life care in nursing and care homes
Most people living in care homes will die there. This article reveals the factors influencing good-quality end-of-life care from the perspectives of residents, relatives and staff
End-of-life care for people with urological cancer
As the majority of patients with urological cancers die in hospital, urology and continence nurses have an important role to play in the end-of-life care team
Improving services for long-term conditions
Providing services to meet need rather than by specialty could mean patients receive better services and would be a more efficient use of NHS resources
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Opioids in palliative care: the NICE guidance
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Spiritual support using a chaplaincy service: update
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Specialist nurses improve outcomes in heart failure
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A reappraisal of herbal medicinal products
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Ethical issues around continuous deep sedation without hydration
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Overcoming barriers to influenza vaccination
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Dementia care: focusing on daily experiences
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Quality indicators to measure end-of-life care
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Communication in cross-cultural cancer care
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Opioid prescribing in palliative care
News
Good quality end-of-life care 'hit or miss', claims report
The quality of end-of-life care for the terminally ill depends on “arbitrary” factors such as disease, age and geographical location, according to a new report.
Less than 50% of terminally ill patients put on Liverpool Care Pathway
Less than half of all terminally ill patients are placed on the nationally recommended Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP), new research has revealed.
Doctor wants death diagnosis change
A doctor is calling for worldwide consensus on how death is diagnosed because of improvements in medical science.
Slight decline in number of avoidable deaths
The number of “avoidable deaths” has declined but still accounts for almost a quarter of fatalities, figures suggest.
Many older patients see death as 'too far off' to plan care
People are increasingly leaving it “too late” to face their own mortality, experts said, after figures suggest that many older people think death is “too far off”.
More education ‘key’ to use of Liverpool Care Pathway
Members of the Royal College of Nursing have called for more training and education in end of life care for health professionals in light of the ongoing controversy surrounding the Liverpool Care Pathway.
Nurses to get communication skills training in Welsh palliative care plan
NHS Wales nurses delivering palliative care are to receive improved training plus better people support and end of life communication skills.
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DH hands hospices £60m funding boost
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Bolton chief nurse joins cancer charity
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End-of-life care concerns raised
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Support booklet launched for bereaved grandparents
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Ovarian cancer life expectancy increased by abdomen injections
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Public invited to give views on Liverpool Care Pathway
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Hospitals welcome mortality probe
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13,000 cancer deaths a year 'preventable'
End-of-life care clinical homepage
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Practice blog
How do you get hospital staff to walk in the shoes of people with dementia?
Yesterday I went to see a play Inside out of Mind. Based on a dementia admissions ward it told the story of staff and patients.
Nursingtimes.net Archive
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Undergraduate nursing students caring for cancer patients: hermeneutic phenomenological insights of their experiences.
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Validation of a mobility item bank for older patients in primary care.
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Duodenal levodopa/carbidopa infusion therapy in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease leads to improvement in caregivers' stress and burden.
Opinion
'To me Emily was a small child but in medical eyes she was an adult'
A month after I had driven my excited, healthy and independent 18 year old daughter Emily to start her first year at University I received a text from her saying she felt unwell.
Favourites from the archive
Palliative care 1: principles of palliative care nursing and end-of-life care
This article describes the definitions, goals and principles of palliative care nursing, and the diversity and challenges of providing this care
Behind the Headlines
High UK child death rates unfairly blamed on GPs
“Almost 2,000 British children a year die from ‘avoidable’ causes because family doctors lack training in paediatric care,” The Independent alarmingly claims.
