Nov 16, 2021
This episode features Dr Diah Martina (Department of Medical
Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, University Medical Center
Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands).
Asian healthcare professionals hold that patients’ family play a
central role in advance care planning and rarely engage patients in
it. Despite the...
Nov 16, 2021
This episode features Dr Ben Bowers (Primary Care Unit,
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of
Cambridge, Cambridge, UK).
The prescribing of injectable anticipatory medications to provide
symptom relief in the last days of life is recommended and
widespread practice in a number of counties. There...
Sep 2, 2021
This episode features Dr Markus Krause (Institute of General
Practice and Family Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Jena,
Germany) and Dr Antje Freytag (Institute of General Practice and
Family Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany).
Palliative homecare is an important component of palliative care,
and it...
Sep 2, 2021
This episode features Jamilla Akhter Hussain (Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull York Medical School, Hull, UK), Jonathan Koffman (Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation, King’s College London, London, UK) and Sabrina Bajwah (Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care and...
Sep 2, 2021
This episode features Dr Eleanor Wilson (Nottingham Centre for
the Advancement of Research in End of Life Care, School of Health
Sciences, University of Nottingham Medical School, Queen’s
Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK)
Managing medications at home can be a complex task involving
ordering, collecting, organising,...