As healthcare becomes increasingly complex it is so important for us to be able to keep abreast of and critically developments in knowledge and practice. Now in its fifth year, Pallaborative North West’s Essential Skills to Improve Palliative Care is designed to bring you those skills in bite-size sessions. Brought to you by practising clinicians,… Read More

Our annual review takes place at Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool on Thursday 28th March 2019 at 1pm to 2.30pm (lunch available at 12.30pm). We will recap the key findings from our reviews of Breathlessness, Opioid Substitution and Substance Misuse in Palliative Care. The session will also launch the next round of reviews – come and… Read More

Making sure you can access the guidelines wherever you are is really important. Our new website is smart phone friendly and so we are encouraging all our colleagues to make sure they have the guidelines easily available on their phone. At our regional meeting on 10th January Dr Anthony Thompson led us through the very… Read More

Thursday 10th March saw our first regional meeting for 2019 and it was the turn of the Guideline Development Group for Substance Misuse Disorders to share with us all of the hard work they have been doing over the past 12 months. The current guidelines were last reviewed in 2010 so it was definitely time… Read More

We are delighted to share with you the publication of our latest NICE accredited guideline:Transfusion of red blood cells in patients with advanced cancer receiving palliative care . Congratulations to the Guideline Development Group for all their hard work in putting these together This can be a very tricky area particularly more recently with increasing… Read More

Following our recent Quality Improvement Workshop special we know just how much work is happening across the region and how keen everyone is to really make a difference to patient care We have just created a new Quality Improvement page on this website which we will be developing over the coming weeks and months We… Read More

You can now access our NICE accredited guideline on the Use of Bisphosphonates and Denosumab for the Management of Malignant Bone Pain. This new  guideline now replaces the 2009 edition. There is lots of helpful information on: -how they work -when and which to use, -doses , routes of administration,  infusion rates -side effects and… Read More

You may have heard people talking about getting localised reports as part of our regional audit programme and wondered what it was all about. Here we give you a brief overview of What is localised reporting? Why it is so important for your patients? How your team or organisation can make sure you get localised reports

The final installment of this year’s Essential Skills course took place on Thursday 27th September and was a day packed with great learning . There was an introductory session on study design and then participants had the opportunity to  hone their skills in critical appraisal by reviewing Randomised Controlled Trials, and Qualitative research papers  in… Read More