In this episode it is my absolute pleasure to talk with Dr Julian Abel who became a consultant in palliative care 2001, working initially at a district general hospital and a hospice. For more than a decade he has become increasingly involved in finding ways of building compassionate communities around people at end of life. He has run projects at local, regional and national levels. He was Vice President of Public Health Palliative Care International. He is an international keynote speaker and has published regularly on models of public health palliative care. He is the editor, along with Professor Allan Kellehear, of the Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care.

We explore Advance Care Planning from a relational context, I learn the origins of the What Matters Most work and have an opportunity to share how much this has influenced my practice.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

Stephanie Craig is a Registered Nurse and a PhD Student at Queen’s University Belfast. Since qualifying Steph has worked on a number of projects including the implementation of an Advance Care Planning educational tool for undergraduate nursing students.

I connected with Steph on Twitter and was keen to learn what was covered in Steph’s education about Advance Care Planning as a student nurse and how this translated into practice.

We talk about the fabulous project work that Steph has been involved with since qualifying and the difference this is making for nurses of tomorrow – building their confidence to learn, do and share Advance Care Planning skills.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this episode it is my pleasure and honour to talk with Dr. Naheed Dosani. Naheed is a palliative care physician and health justice activist dedicated to advancing equitable access to healthcare for people experiencing structural vulnerabilities like poverty and homelessness. Naheed’s achievements include founding the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program at the Inner City Health Associates, serving as the Medical Director of Kensington Hospice in downtown Toronto, a Health Equity Expert Advisor at the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and as a palliative care physician at St. Michael’s Hospital at Unity Health Toronto.

We talk about early influences in Naheed’s life and career, the impact of structural vulnerability, and I learn how the PEACH programme is supporting Advance Care Planning for people experiencing homelessness.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this episode it is my pleasure to talk with Victoria Butler-Cole KC , a barrister at 39 Essex Chambers. TorShe specialises in health and social care law, in particular the Court of Protection.  She is a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and an advisor to the Open Justice project.

This episode is the third in a series exploring a family’s experience at the Court of Protection and what we can learn from it. In the first episode I talk with Anna about her experience at the Court of Protection, I hear how Anna and her family were unprepared for the experience and we explore the tension between deprivation of liberty and appropriate care and supervision of a person. In the second episode I talk with Mary about how it felt as a daughter to experience the Court of Protection, and what she learned about being an attorney for her Mum. You can access both of these episodes through the website www.speakforme.co.uk 

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this episode it is my pleasure to talk with Mary about how it felt as a daughter to experience the Court of Protection, and what she learned about being an attorney for her Mum. I talk with Mary about what it felt like to experience the Court of Protection, the challenges, the positives and what impact the Open Justice Court of Protection Project had. 

This is the second in a series of three podcasts; previously I spoke with Anna, Mary’s sister about the interplay between Lasting Power of Attorney and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. I learned about the circumstances leading to being in the Court of Protection and the interplay between Lasting Power of Attorney and Deprivation of Liberty safeguards.

In the third episode I’ll be talking with Victoria Butler Cole KC who explains the terminology and legal framework that underpin the mental capacity act, lasting Power of Attorney and deprivation of liberty safeguards.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this episode it is my pleasure to talk with Anna about her experience at the Court of Protection. I hear how Anna and her family were unprepared for the experience and we explore the tension between deprivation of liberty and appropriate compassionate care and supervision of a person.

This is the first in a series of three podcasts; in the next episode I talk with Anna’s sister Mary about how it felt to experience the Court of Protection and in the third I talk with Victoria Butler Cole KC who explains the terminology and legal framework that underpin deprivation of liberty safeguards.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this episode it is my pleasure to talk with Dr Ben Bowers. We talk about Ben’s research focusing on Anticipatory prescribing, the practice he found and what we can learn from this to deliver more personalised care.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this episode I talk with Roslyn Wood. Ros is a specialist metalworker and artisan jeweller. For over a decade she has been helping families capture precious moments in life through the art of jewellery-making.

I talk with Ros about how her passion for memorial jewellery began, the variety of work she creates for people and how memorial jewellery can help with grief. You can see Ros’s work and some of her beautiful creations at roslynjewellery.co.uk 

In our discussion Ros shares the joy she experiences in creating unique work which reflects so beautifully what mattered to a person.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this episode of Conversations About Advance Care Planning it is my pleasure to talk with Dr Anna Steel. Anna is a Consultant Geriatrician at Barnet Hospital and co-founded the “Elephant in the Room” Advance Care Planning simulation course.

We talk about what led Anna to create the course, how it is delivered and the impact it has made..

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

I first met Jo in 2023 to record how Fast Track Continuing Health care supports Advance Care Planning. We spoke about the importance of adapting to rapidly changing needs, and the care required to support her husband Barry to die at home after he was diagnosed with an aggressive glioblastoma.

In this special episode, released during Dying Matters 2023, we talk about the challenges in knowing how to mark anniversaries, what walking alongside a grieving person looks like and the importance of workplace support for bereavement.

There’s a link to Jo’s first episode in the show notes or you can find it as number 45 in Conversations about Advance Care Planning.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.