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 Palliative Care and Hospices – Cicely Saunders and the evolution of the hospice movement
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By Margaret Gibbs
In Palliative Care
Posted 31st August 2018

Palliative Care and Hospices – Cicely Saunders and the evolution of the hospice movement

Hospices have been in existence for centuries as religious and charitable establishments that would take care of the terminally ill. The modern hospice movement began in 1967 when Dr Cicely [...]

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 Medicines optimisation in long-term pain (KTT21)
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By Graham Connolly
In Clinical Guidelines, NICE guidelines, Palliative Care
Posted 8th May 2018

Medicines optimisation in long-term pain (KTT21)

This NICE key therapeutic topic was updated in February 2018 and summarises the evidence base on medicines optimisation in long-term pain, in order that the right medication is being used for [...]

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 Care of dying adults in the last days of life (QS144)
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By Graham Connolly
In Clinical Guidelines, NICE guidelines, Palliative Care
Posted 18th May 2017

Care of dying adults in the last days of life (QS144)

This quality standard was published in March 2017 and covers adult patients who are dying, during the last few days of their life. It does not cover care for dying patients before the last few [...]

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 Celebrating 50 years of the modern hospice movement
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By Graham Connolly
In Palliative Care
Posted 27th February 2017

Celebrating 50 years of the modern hospice movement

The modern hospice movement has improved the quality of palliative care greatly over the past 50 years and has helped with the research and education in its field. It has achieved this by [...]

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 What challenges do hospices face in relation to medicines management?
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By Tomasz Wojcik
In Medicines Management Processes, Palliative Care, Pharmacy Information, Regulations and Standards
Posted 10th February 2017

What challenges do hospices face in relation to medicines management?

It is now 26 years since the then Health Secretary, Virginia Bottomley, successfully argued in favour of providing hospices with a prescribing budget, instead of using NHS prescriptions to obtain [...]

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 What is Palliative Care?
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By Graham Connolly
In Palliative Care
Posted 24th January 2017

What is Palliative Care?

Palliative care can provide great comfort to patients suffering from a terminal illness, and also their families. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines palliative care as “an approach that [...]

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