1 Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 Waikato Institute of ...

Objectives Multidisciplinary team meetings are a regular feature in the provision of palliative care, involving a range of professionals. Yet, their purpose and best format are not necessarily well ...

Correspondence to Professor Irene J Higginson, King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Bessemer ...

Background Anticipatory prescribing (AP) of injectable medications in advance of clinical need is established practice in community end-of-life care. Changes to prescribing guidelines and practice ...

Correspondence to Dr Adam Todd, Division of Pharmacy, School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, Room number: C138, Holliday Building, Queen's Campus, Stockton on Tees TS17 6BH, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr Kirsty Boyd, Palliative Care Service, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK; kirsty.boyd{at}ed.ac.uk Objective To refine and evaluate a ...

Correspondence to Professor Xavier Gómez-Batiste, The 'Qualy' Observatory/WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Palliative Care Programmes, Institut Catala d' Oncologia, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat ...

Makerere and Mulago Palliative Care Unit Makerere University Kampala, Global Health Academy University of Edinburgh, Dr Ambrosoli Memorial Hospital Agago, Hospice Africa Uganda Kampala, Kabale ...

Objective To investigate patterns of care during the last months of life of hospitalised patients who died from different haematological malignancies. Methods Nationwide register-based study, ...

Background Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) teams, operating across multiple sites, encountered challenges in managing individual caseloads. This led to inflexibility at a time of increasing demands ...

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 ...

Methods We identified patients with a PVG inserted for MBO and those who consented to participate were interviewed. The interviews were audio recorded, transcribed and analysed using Framework.