Palliative Care Matters - pallcare.info

Palliative Care Matters

Main Menu

Home

Events

Books

Theses & Dissertations

Jobs

FAQs

Contact

A bit of Fun!

About

Associated sites

JournalClub

PMH Handbook

If you do not have an account yet Create One

Lost your Password?

Book of the Moment

Rehabilitation in Cancer Care

More books...

Palliative Medicine Handbook on-line!

The Palliative Medicine Handbook 3rd ed. is available on-line at book.pallcare.info

Website

Welcome to Palliative Care Matters

Palliative Care Matters is a website intended for health-care professionals working in palliative care or related fields. You are welcome to visit the pages as a Guest, but please consider registering, as this will bring several advantages.

An important feature of the site allows you, as a registered user, to automatically identify new items that have been added since your last visit. If you also register your profession and home country, several of the pages will show quick menu links to items most likely to interest you.

The site is being continuously developed. Please let me know if you come acrosss any problems or 'bugs'; also, any feedback, comments or suggestions are always welcome at Contact

News & Announcements...

Advance care planning guideline published
Tuesday 24th February
A new National Guideline has been published jointly by the British Geriatrics Society, Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Nursing, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Royal College of General Practitioners, British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine, Alzheimer's Society, Help the Aged and the National Council for Palliative Care. It can be downloaded from the RCP website
\|

A New Code of Practice for the Diagnosis and Confirmation of Death
Sunday 26th October
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has launched new guidelines for doctors on how to diagnose and confirm death in patients. The Code, which has taken four years to put together following consultation with more than 60 groups and individuals, is designed to remove ambiguities in the way death has previously been diagnosed and takes account the rapid advances in medical science since the last code was published in 1998.
Read More... \| \|

Final version of the deprivation of liberty safeguards Code of Practice
Monday 1st September
The final version of the deprivation of liberty safeguards Code of Practice (Mental Capacity Act DOLS) and two sets of MCA DOLS regulations have recently completed their passage through Parliament.
Read More... \| \|

Advice from the Nursing and Midwifery Council on mixing drugs in palliative care
Monday 18th August
The NMC has issued advice to Independent Nurse Prescribers on mixing drugs in palliative care. “Independent Nurse Prescribers are not authorised to prescribe a mixture of licensed medication for administration via, for example, a syringe driver. Whilst the medications they are prescribing are individually licensed for administration, if they require mixing, this alters the properties of the medication and renders it an unlicensed one.” Read the NMC report...
\|

"Methadone Rises as a Painkiller With Big Risks"
Monday 18th August
An article in the New York Tomes highlights the increased use - and risks - of methadone as a painkiller. Read the article...
Read More... \| \|

End of Life Care Strategy announced
Wednesday 16th July
England's End of Life Care Strategy was announced today by Health Secretary Alan Johnson. The report, entitled "Promoting high quality care for all adults at the end of life" is available on the EOLC website
\|

LCP guidelines for Drug Prescribing in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease
Monday 23rd June
The National Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) Renal Steering Group has published guidelines for drug prescribing in advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). These guidelines are to ensure best practice in the care of patients with CKD during the last weeks or days of their lives.
Read More... \| \|

Physician assisted suicide in Oregon - report on first decade
Sunday 11th May
There is an excellent objective review of the first decade of PAS in Oregon published in American Medical News, the newspaper of the American Medical Association. It starts "The first decade of Oregon's unique law has surprised supporters and opponents alike. One benefit nearly everyone can welcome: The issue focused attention on end-of-life care." Read the original article...
\|

Guidelines for long-term neurological conditions
Friday 2nd May
These guidelines build on the Quality Requirements in the National Service Framework for Long-term (Neurological) Conditions (LTNCs) to explore the interaction between specialist neurology, rehabilitation and palliative care services, and how they may best work together to provide long-term support for people with LTNCs and the family members who care for them. The guidelines also provide practical advice for clinicians when caring for someone with an LTNC, as well as outlining indications for specialist referral.
Read More... \| \|

Awake! A Music CD of End-of-Life songs
Friday 2nd May
A palliative care nurse, has written and recorded a collection of folk-country music songs about end-of-life issues. He writes "This is a musical experiment by a creative nurse who hopes to expose and maybe change our attitudes about end of life. Steve Price has been a registered nurse for 25 years. He now works as a palliative care nurse. His experiences have inspired him to write his first CD."
Read More... \| \|