Palliative Care ECHO Update NIH , York University, Association of Palliative Medicine

Matt reviews the historical offers that Palliative services and hospices have made over the years to commissioners.

Erica Borgstorm looks at how clinicians have ethnographically coped with palliative care choosing not to intervene, test, manage or otherwise intervene in contrast to other specialties.

We get an update from Hospice UK on all that has been happening in Scotland and England in relation to Assisted dying/Suicide debates in parliaments and Anette Alcock gives an overview of some of the conversations that Hospice Uk has been having in relation to commissioners and the Hospice and Palliative Care "offer" to services.

Kate compresses her journal review to summaries of three key papers and Max concludes with another AI generated poem on managing uncertainty. We hope you will enjoy!

A full on ECHO with Matt looking at the process of decision making around assisted dying and Kate looking at a paper on terminal sedation decisoon making from Europe.

Mark Junnicer from the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death summarises the NCEPOD report into UK end of life care, before Anita Hayes gives the latest update from HospiceUK activity data from across the Hospice Sector. Hope you enjoy it

For the Valentine's Clinical ECHO, Matt looks at the brain changes that effect interdependence, so often a vital part of Palliative Care.

Kate looks at a review of the patchwork of services that constitutes UK community out of hours care. Professor Keri Thomas provides an overview of the recently launched Coalition of Frontline Care and Keri Gammons describes the the model of integrated working which has been so successful across Lincolnshire.

The Christmas clinical ECHO.

A review of the Hospice UK conference in Glasgow last month.

Supportimg people with a hearing loss in the palliative care context.

Ethical understandings and approaches from a Palliative Ethicist.

A palliative Doctor from the Islamic community speaks of the tensions between her community and her chosen career

This episode looks at the impact of War and PTSD on palliative care, the lack of palliative care services in Cardiology around Ventricular assist devices, the impact of Poverty on end of life care and Assisted dying n the UK with the Bill due to go before parliament at the end of te month.

This session looks at how best to teach palliative care and different learning theories. Kate looks at a key paper from Professor Bruera on adoption of palliative care in medical systems and then we hear from Professor Fliss Murtagh on a review of 24 years of Palliative care delivery across the UK and a large survey of families of patients who have died on the experience of palliative care in the UK.

We also get an update on research in Hospice UK and an overview of Hospice Care week.

It is a Full on ECHO. with Fliss Murtagh summarizing two crucial complex reports with her consumate skill.

In this season of election manifestos and incessant political commentary Matt will be having a look at how previous crises in the NHS have been navigated, and in particular how Palliative Care has continued to grow and develop in the face of everything.

Kate will be looking at a series of articles in the Nursing Times on looking after people with palliative care needs.

We will also be hearing from Liv Warnes,  from Hospice UK,  about the advocacy work taking place on behalf of Hospice and Palliative Care with the political parties in the UK up to election on July 4. With suggestions of what could be done at the local level.

Prior to the holiday season we would also like to know what topics you would like your Clinical ECHO to be covering next season.

This month we focus on uncertainty in Palliative Care with Matt looking at choice and free will in the presence of constant uncertainty, and Kate looking at the uncertanties around delivering Palliative care in prison.

We are joined By Ariel Dempsey, Dr. Robert Twycross and Chris White.

Ariel will be summarising her PhD work on uncertainty, Dr. Twycross, the father of research in the modern palliative care movement will be looking at the uncertain impacts of potential changes in assisted dying legislation and Chris will be highlighting this weeks Dying Matters campaign.

The April Clinical ECHO focus is on inspiration and hope in the face of so much global fear and suffering. We have an international focus learning from, and collaborating with, palliative care teams from across the world. 

Matt will be focussing on his learning from the virtual Palliative Care Congress with many international speakers but also including news about an unusual and evidence-based use of sniffing alcohol wipes to quickly counteract nausea. 

Kate has been scouring the journals again to bring us her pick of the month focussing on economic impacts on dying in the UK.

We will also be hearing the thinking behind the new Hospice UK strategy which has just been launched and an update on current items from the news likely to impact Palliative Care.