We have just published the brand new guideline Palliative Care for People with Advanced Liver Disease. You don’t want to miss this resource which covers many key areas including: identification, prognostication, and symptom management. There is invaluable comprehensive advice on which medications we should be using in people with severe liver impairment. We have updated… Read More
Running out of time
The deadline for submitting clinical cases and completing the healthcare professional survey for our regional audit on Anticoagulation is fast approaching. Don’t miss your chance to receive a localised report for your team or organisation. You only need to submit a minimum of 10 cases. Your bespoke report, bench marked against regional results, will help… Read More
Fatigue- did you miss it?
It was great to see so many colleagues at the regional audit meeting today- we think it was one of the best attended meetings for some time. The GDG had done a great job with their in depth review of how best to assess and manage fatigue in patients with life limiting illness. Their literature… Read More
Don’t miss our Fatigue special
Thursday July 11th is the big day for our Guideline Development Group on Fatigue as they will be presenting their work at our regional clinical audit meeting. Come and hear news from the comprehensive literature review; see the results from the survey of health care professionals and check out the all important case audit results… Read More
Helping with Those Tricky Decisions
We know that discussions with patients and those important to them about cardiopulmonary resuscitation can be very challenging. Our new NICE accredited guideline on CPR Decision Making is published today on the Pallaborative North West website There is a helpful Quick Reference Summary and the full guideline which covers important areas such as general principles;… Read More
What’s New with Fatigue?
Thank you to all the teams and units who have contributed to the data collection for our regional clinical audit on Fatigue in Palliative Care. We are really looking forward to our meeting on Thursday 11th July when we hear the results from the healthcare professional and clinical practice surveys. It will be great to… Read More
Congratulations
Congratulations to Dr Rachel McDonald and members of the Guideline Development Group for Opioid Substitution. They won best poster prize at the European Association for Palliative care Conference in Berlin last month which is fabulous news. Click here to view the winning poster
Making it easier for you to get involved….
We know that many of you are really keen to get involved with the various Guideline Development Groups but worry about being able to attend the meetings and make an active contribution to the work. We are delighted to let you know that we think we have found a solution. Just this week Pallaborative North… Read More
Baking Improvement – Essential Recipes for Improving Care
There are ten times the number of articles published relating to Palliative Care now than there were thirty years ago. Never before in humanity have we been able to have such knowledge and information at our fingertips as we have today. How do we make sense of this so that we can support people and… Read More
Next Phase of Audit & Guideline Reviews Announced
The next set of topics to be reviewed has been announced at the bimonthly meeting of Pallaborative North West. Consultation with our partners and a survey of clinicians highlighted the following areas of focus: Intractable cough Continuous subcutaneous infusions Ascites (fluid within the abdomen) Anticonvulsants (medicines to treat fits and seizures) Key clinical, patient and… Read More
