Only for a week! But let’s not look a gift horse in the mouth.
This link allows you to sign up for free access to Palliative Medicine till 13th May.
Regards, sonia
Free access to 30 years of Palliative Medicine….
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ANZSPM Update 2015 – Registrations Now Open
I thoroughly recommend this course by ANZSPM in Melbourne 18 -20 June. Aimed at medical practitioners and nurse practitioners, it offers “two full days of state of the art educational updates in areas relevant to practitioners who work in, or have an interest in, Palliative Medicine.”
This is the third medical and surgical update for palliative medicine peeps that has been offered. I have attended in the past and found it really worthwhile.
There is an associated trainees day and supervisor’s workshop
email anzspm@willorganise.com.au
Sonia
global interventions at the end of life
Professor David Clark’s team are investigating global interventions in end of life and palliative care.
This research project is led by the University of Glasgow and supported by the Wellcome Trust.
Here is a very snappy short youtube video….
Sonia
#lettertome : A twitter campaign to improve how we share information with patients part 2.
Here is the long awaited second part of Dr Chris Sanderson’s thoughts about #lettertome, where doctors write letters to PATIENTS instead of other doctors……
The idea of #lettertome goes further than sharing a copy of the standard doctors’ letter with the patient. Instead of writing about patients, maybe we could be writing to them. When we reconceptualise what we do in terms of patient-centered care, a letter can have very valuable functions:
- It explicitly addresses the patient’s role in their own care, as part of the team, and helps them to follow up their own part in the treatment plan
- It can restate and confirm the discussion that has been held with the patient, for them to use and refer back to – helping to overcome problems for patients of misunderstanding, mishearing, or simply missing much of what is said because they are overwhelmed
- Likewise, the GP and other clinicians can know exactly what has been communicated to the patient about their situation
- It can affirm the clinician’s care for the patient, and their plans to address the patient’s problems
- It can invite the patient to correct or update information that is being shared about them
- It conveys a fundamental message of respect, of collaboration, and of transparency in communication, and helps the patient to understand how the network of clinicians caring for them are working together in their care – who is doing what, and how they are staying in touch with each other to address the patient’s problems.
Special guest post – Dr Chris Sanderson on #lettertome
Dear readers,
We are honoured to bring you a guest post, in fact two, and indeed we hope more, from the fabulous Dr Chris Sanderson, palliative care physician. I have to say that I was so inspired by this idea, by putting patients at the centre of our communication, where they should be, that I totally stole this idea for my own Change Day pledge.
Below is part one of her description of her pledge for Change Day, #lettertome.
#lettertome : A twitter campaign to improve how we share information with patients.
Social media is such a wonderful space for spreading ideas – and sometimes the simplest ideas may convey a world of significance. Recently on twitter, there was a conversation between various doctors and patient advocates about how we speak to and about our patients, and the subject of doctors’ letters was raised. Thus was born a new hashtag, a pledge for Change Day Australia, and potentially a new way of doing things.
Abstracts for Palliative Care Australia conference are open!
And this year it’s sunny Melbourne for the PCA conference. Abstracts are open, and close 13th April.
https://www.etouches.com/ehome/112617/Abstracts/
Palliative Care: Fit for the Future
1 – 4 September 2015, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
What will the future look like?
Who is part of our future?
How do we get ready for the future in palliative care?
(E-Hanging out with the team at Palliverse is an excellent start!)
Posters will be electronic only which is neat.
I have a couple of ideas already…. planning to submit anything?
Sonia
Social media – find of the day
Admittedly it’s early in the day…. but here’s my find of the day.
The Palliative Review by @kpedmonds just floated across my Twitter feed.
http://paper.li/kpedmonds/1394491140
It’s got a STACK of good reading, from utility of thickened fluids in dysphagia to a thoughtful piece on palliative research priorities. You can subscribe to receive emails of this compendium. This is an example of something I think have talked about before, “curation”, when someone does all the hard work and collects the good stuff for you.
Enjoy! Sonia
How to rock the boat without falling out – interested in Change?
For this week’s social media post we visit The Edge and the change and innovation folks from the NHS in the UK. The School for Health and Care Radicals is running a free online course. Here’s what they say about it below…..
Rock the boat and stay in it! Anyone who wants to bring about change has to be ready to break the rules. But in health and social care, that can be really difficult. The art of rocking the boat while staying in it is something it seems no-one is ready to help you learn. That’s where the School for Health and Care Radicals (SHCR) comes in. Brought to you by NHS Improving Quality, the School is entirely based online, is completely free, is backed by the world’s largest health organisation: the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), and is a platform for radicals to learn together, using powerful, guided learning which also qualifies for Continuing Professional Development points*.
The School for Health and Care Radicals is a free, five-week virtual learning programme for change activists in health and care. Five modules Absolutely free 9.30am-11.00am GMT Friday morning online sessions (or catch-up when you’re able) Handbook and study guides Social Guided Learning Use it how you want! If you’ve been frustrated by having to navigate stifling hierarchies to get the changes you know are needed, or criticised for being a dissenter, disruptive or even divisive, then the School for Health and Care Radicals is for you. It’s more than just a school – it’s a platform for learning, and a community of people like you. You can read more about the School on our FAQs page. –
See more at: http://www.nhsiq.nhs.uk/9022.aspx#sthash.aphbFb9p.dpuf
I am joining up so I hope to see you there. It’s a good time for south eastern Australia, at 20:30 on a Friday night, but I understand that you can do it at any time. The Edge also publishes an e-newsletter which is free – heaps of interesting and inspiring reading there from thinkers and leaders in health. The Edge makes connections between people worldwide who are interested in transformational change and disruptive innovation in health and care. http://theedge.nhsiq.nhs.uk
Cheers, Sonia
2014 in review – here are the stats from our first year!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,200 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.
Centre for Palliative Care – lecture on palliative sedation by A. Prof Jenny Philip
The Centre for Palliative Care in Melbourne runs a series of Hot Topics lectures for the field. They have kindly published videos of their recent talks, which we would like to share with you.
The Palliverse team are going to start a collection of resources in free open access medical and nursing education (#FOAMed and #FOANed) relative to Palliative Care, and here’s the first addition to the collection.
A.Prof Jenny Philip is a wonderful speaker and takes us on a journey through the controversial issue of palliative sedation. Starting with definition (variable) and incidence (also variable), she describes for us some European guidelines on palliative sedation and then guides a panel of experienced palliative care professionals through three cases exploring issues in palliative sedation.
palliverse.com 