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

Fliss Murtagh research on the real costs of delivering Palliative Care, Reviews of the UK Government report on assisted dying/suicide, tribute to Wendy Mitchel, Nursing Apprenticeships and Growing your own Consultants, and finally Rachel Clarke on her ITV drama series about Covid, "Breathtaking".

Review of all party parliamentary report on Hospice Funding, Workforce issues with Matt Dore, Fliss Murtagh and Anita Hayes and palliative care and climate change from Richard Smith former Editor of the BMJ.

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Max, Matt and Kate

Welcome to the New Year Palliative Care update. Matt helps us understand how AI works and we look at ways that the sector could use it in 2024. Kate reviews a paper looking at the management of patients with Parkinson's disease and we get an update from Emily Pikett on the SR1 form roll out.

Our main focus of discussion follows on from Feargal Twomey explaining the Irish Government's decision to fund Hospice and Palliative care 100%! Hope you find it interesting.

Max, Matt and Kate

This month we recap the HospiceUK conference, Matt looks at economic systems and hospices and Kate's journal article highlights digital legacy issues. We learn of the radical changes in end of life care services from Fife in Scotland from Jo Bowden and are updated in the new carers leave act that comes into law next April. We finish with a poetic christmas tribute from Benjamin Zephaniah (1958-2023)

Four Palliative Doctors from across the world discuss their use of ECHO to support global palliative care in a panel at the recent MetaECHO conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Professor Christopher Piromalli, works with indigenous communities in New Mexico and Alaska, Professor Rajgopal the Father of Indian Palliative Care and founder of Pallium India, Dr. Megan Doherty who works across Asia with Two worlds from Canada in paediatric palliative care and Professor Max Watson, Director of Project ECHO with Hospice UK discuss the role of ECHO in reducing end of life suffering.

This Month Matt is looking at protocols and guidelines in palliative care and their merits and demerits, Max is highlighting the developments in the world wide ECHO movement, particularly in Palliative Care. Kate is focussing on a paper looking at the impacts of patients, carers and staff of seven day working and Clare Rayment from Bradford is talking about the REACT project in A&E in Bradford.

This month's podcast focuses on frailty.

We will be thinking about the increasing numbers of frail patients, working in an increasingly frail NHS and coming to terms with our own biases and frailties.

Matt, Max and Kate are joined by Anita Hayes and Catriona Sullivan talking about the Hospice UK's extending frailty care programme and by Sabrina Bajwah from King's College highlighting her research into specialist palliative care's response to ethnic minority groups and a new video resource.