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Hearing from Jan Hrdlicka from Czechia about acceptability of VR for training comm skills in serious illnesses communication at #EAPC2025

Themed session on using VR for role play and serious communication training with Claudia Bausewein sharing her first VR experience of breaking bad news to an avatar patient. #EAPC2025

Dr Mohamad Saab and Dr Irene Hartigan present the results (just in!) from a feasibility and acceptability study with regard to VR Talks in Breaking bad news comms #EAPC2025

Plenaries, talks and posters at a bustling, exciting and sunny #EAPC2025 lots of fascinating talks and catching up with friends. Helsinki is in full learning flow.

Themed session on policy and how palliative research and evidence can help shape future direction at government level. #EAPC2025 #Helsinki

Enteral and parenteral nutrition in patients with cancer: complication rates compared—updated systematic review and meta-analysis spcare.bmj.com/content/15/3/2…

Open access: Palliative care utilisation globally by cancer patients: systematic review and meta-analysis spcare.bmj.com/content/15/3/2…

Effect of educational interventions in pain intensity and related outcomes in adults with oncological pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis spcare.bmj.com/content/early/… BMJ SPCare

A few snaps from Harlington Hospice's truly "awesome" annual, palliative care conference. A day of sharing of ideas, practice, and impact. Full programme: harlingtonhospice.org/wp-content/upl… #Hospice #ThisIsHospiceCare #Hillingdon

📢 IMP work from CMC Vellore (Official) & Adyar Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai, published in BMJ SPCare. 📈 Timely early palliative care referrals rose from 30–37% ➡️ 60–66% via sustainable QI interventions. 📝 Read doi.org/10.1136/spcare… 👏 Congrats Praveen Kumar Marimuthu, Jewell, JENIFER JEBA SUNDARARAJ Ma’am & the team!

Josh Thomas Georgy CMC Vellore (Official) Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai BMJ SPCare Praveen Kumar Marimuthu QIPs can be great channels to enable early palliative care integration in advanced cancer

"...the proposed legislation [assisted dying] would bypass regulatory safeguards, licensing, adverse event reporting and coroner referral. In any other area of medicine, such practices would be unacceptable. spcare.bmj.com/content/15/4/4…

Untested, unlicensed, unregulated: prescribing and oversight issues in physician-assisted dying/suicide spcare.bmj.com/content/15/4/4…

As Canada looms closer to expanding their assisted suicide laws for mental illness as a sole condition, I urge you to read my latest Substack article: "The Line We Cannot Cross: Why Mental Illness Must Be Excluded from MAiD". Write your MP. open.substack.com/pub/aliciadunc…

Why physician-assisted suicide has no place in the NHS Editorial 👇 spcare.bmj.com/content/early/…

Untested, unlicensed, unregulated: prescribing and oversight issues in physician-assisted dying/suicide spcare.bmj.com/content/15/4/4…

Ambulatory palliative care and cancer symptom control: a systematic review and meta-analysis spcare.bmj.com/content/15/4/4…

It was wonderful catching up with Samantha Winemaker she/her and Hsien Seow PhD of the Waiting Room Revolution podcast yesterday. An episode focused on all things 'digital legacy' will be hitting the airwaves in the coming weeks. Subscribe & tune in via: waitingroomrev.podbean.com #digitallegacy #hpm