The aim of end of life care should be to help people to live as well as possible until they die and to help people to die with dignity.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
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Episode 25. To many, death and dying have no value and are relegated to the margins of our lives. What could be an enriching and meaningful phase of life can become over-medicalised, transactional and...
One strategy used by experienced clinicians in advance care planning conversations
A public engagement project aiming to enable people to talk more openly about death, dying and our ageing population.
Evidence from hospice medical consultations and insights for practice.
During 2015-16, St Gemma’s Hospice in Leeds piloted an innovative service for patients approaching the end of their life who wouldn’t normally be eligible for hospice care as they don’t have complex m...
This project aimed to reduce waiting times and hospital admissions, and improve quality of care and GP capacity.
Background: Research using video recordings can advance understanding of healthcare communication and improve care, but making and using video recordings carries risks. Aim: To explore views of hos...
This project looked at whether improvements in the efficiency of health and social care delivery at the end of life enable access to higher-quality and more personalised care for patients.
This project adapted a hospital-based pain management programme for the hospice setting, to empower palliative care patients with chronic pain to effectively manage their pain themselves
This project aimed to improve care for people with advanced chronic liver disease through timely access to support services and interventions, and hospice-based clinical and therapeutic services.
Fran Duxbury and Alex Blake are senior nurses. Both work on the Gold Line, answering calls from patients in the last year of their lives, and their carers. The service runs 24 hours a day from Airedal...
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