Tag Archive for: palliative care

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Integral mission through palliative care in Nepal

When the first mission workers arrived in Nepal in 1954, Leprosy was endemic and caused much suffering…
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Palliative care and COVID-19

I didn’t pay much attention to them at first. The news stories about Wuhan and the Facebook posts from…

Supreme Court rules that doctors can remove food and fluids from patients with permanent vegetative state, without going to court

My Radio Four Today programme interview on this case is here, and my interview with BBC Radio Five Live…

End of Life Issues. What can we expect in 2017?

Things have been quieter than usual on the end of life front in the UK since the overwhelming defeat…
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Lessons from Africa: running and dying well

We are just back from amazing two weeks in East Africa. Our son Andrew was taking on a series of epic…

Government ministers and MPs wade in on Liverpool Care Pathway

The controversial Liverpool care pathway (LCP), a framework used to manage patients who are imminently…

Specialists in Palliative Medicine need to act swiftly to respond to these five key concerns about the LCP

Yesterday I mentioned that the Association for Palliative Medicine (APM) had announced plans to launch…
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Palliative Medicine specialists to investigate Liverpool Care Pathway

The Association for Palliative Medicine, representing over 1,000 doctors working in hospices and specialist…

Rally for better palliative care & against assisted suicide & euthanasia – 3 July

Dignity in Dying, the former Voluntary Euthanasia Society, are planning a mass lobby of parliament on…

CNK welcomes MPs endorsement of palliative care

Care Not Killing has today welcomed MPs’ decision to encourage further development of specialist…

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