Palliative Adult Network Guidelines (Fourth Edition)

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Supporting your patient through loss(animation): overview guide for practices on tips to strengthen bereavement support. These include supporting bereaved people to ask for help from the

reflective activitiesthat assistreaders in thinking critically about their care and how to improve it Following the phasing out of the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) in 2014, new guidance for approaching a dying person was issued by the Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People. The current guidelines make the dying person the focus of care in the Advanced care planning in 5 simple steps. A video to help ensure people receive the care they want when they need it As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. Every day she tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives and to help make dying more bearable. Macmillan LearnZone a variety of free learning resources, online courses and professional development toolsPublic Health England’s National End of Life Care Intelligence Networkfor commissioning information The following resources provide best practice guidance for clinical treatment of a patient nearing the end of life. Palliative Care Guidelinesdeveloped by a collaboration of UK Cancer networks, and the Welsh Palliative Care Implementation Group

The fourth edition has been updated by an authorship team of over 80 specialists in Palliative care from nine regions across the UK. PANG is a not for profit collaboration aimed at sharing key information to help support patients and families. The Kindle edition allows the Guidelines to be accessed and navigated on a wide range of handheld devices using the search and find tools that come with the free Kindle app. Since the first edition of PANG in 2002 more than 300,000 printed versions have been distributed across the UK and beyond. Looking for support after the loss of someone close?: a patient poster for GP waiting rooms across the UK, telling people how best to speak to their GP about grief they may be feeling - Scotland (523 KB, PDF) pro-active quality care, and allows healthcare professionals to focus on better meeting patients’ needs. It has been developed in partnership with Marie Curieand the Clinical Innovation and Research Centre.The following resources may be used to determine if a patient is nearing the end of life, and give recommendations of how treatment should be tailored to their specific requirements. A Different Ending end of life care review published by the Care Quality Commission examining inequalities in care, particularly with certain groups PHE Fingertipscomparative information presented for each Government Office Region, Strategic Clinical Network, clinical commissioning group and upper and lower tier

Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. Rachel’s training was put to the test in 2017 when her beloved GP father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She learned that nothing – even the best palliative care – can sugar-coat the pain of losing someone you love. A range of bereavement resources aimed to help general practice provide information and signposting to bereaved patients and families.Palliativedrugs.comprovides essential independent information for health professionals about drugs used in palliative and hospice care Clinicians and practices may carry out their own audits as part of the GSF meetings and to fulfil their Care Quality Commission obligations. Online tools are also available to help meet this requirement.

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. The PANG Guidelines have been available for palliative care professionals since 2002. Now in the fourth edition the goal of the guidelines remains the same, – to provide evidence based, practical advice to those looking after patients at the end of life. The same care and attention to provide an informative friend for those supporting patients and families in the palliative context has been applied to the fourth edition as to the previous three and it is hoped it will prove to be as useful a friend to hard pressed professionals. Please note that this publication has two front covers clearly separating the Adult and Paediatric elements of the book. Basic symptom control in paediatric palliative careA key clinical tool for treating a wide range of symptoms experiencedFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deeply personal memoir that finds light and love in the darkest of places. Palliative care has been part of healthcare for over fifty years but we still find ourselves having to explain its nature and practice to colleagues and to the public in general. Healthcare education and training has been slow to recognize the vital importance of ensuring that all practitioners have a good understanding of what is involved in the care of people with serious or advanced illnesses and their families. However, the science of palliative care is advancing and our understanding concerning many aspects of palliative care is developing rapidly.