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Dying Matters week runs from 6-12 May 2024 and is an opportunity for Hospices to highlight the importance of talking to each other about death and dying. #dyingmatters

The finished painting. I’ve loved doing this!

We cannot wait to launch this new resource on 20 June. Watch this space!

Bank holiday Monday

Supporting parents to tell their six year old some sad news about a family member. We explained what the hospital room would look like and I challenged them to think up some really good questions for me. Their first question for me was the best ever… “How do *you* feel?” 😶

Job alert! We are recruiting a band 7 nurse to the amazing #CHIPS team in the North East. Please share! Together for Short Lives The Association for Paediatric Palliative Medicine beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

CONGRATULATIONS to the amazing & hard-working students Kingston University on our "How to do research" course for people with a learning disability! Your pride & joy in receiving your certificates is well-deserved. Huge pleasure to teach! CAHSCR Kingston University Mencap LDEngland

Given recent events, we want to create dedicated space for colleagues from racialised communities working in our sector. Please do register and join if you would like to. Thank you to Jamilla Hussain and others for your leadership and solidarity.

‘Family and friends who are willing to provide care must be supported and the serious workforce shortage in professional homecare provision must be addressed.’ Find out more in the #EAPCblog Miriam Johnson Palliative Medicine Catherine Walshe @wolfsonpallcare eapcnet.wordpress.com/2024/08/20/cos…

Excited to be facilitating this workshop about our toolkit tomorrow!

🗣️💊 “… approaching deprescribing decision-making for people accessing palliative care” How best can we do this? 👉🏼 bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Part of PONDER Study w/ brilliant colleagues: Charlotte L Richardson Catherine Exley Jesse Jansen Adam Todd et al. Newcastle Pharmacy NIHR Newcastle PSRC

PCPLD National Conference ‘What’s new in palliative care for people with a learning disability?’. 📣Call for abstracts 📣 Come and share your story, project or research! Details below ⬇️

✨Speaker Announcement ✨Jo Elverson is a consultant in Adult Palliative Medicine at St Oswald’s Hospice, Newcastle and also works in the regional children’s palliative care team. Talk title: An overview of Palliative care for people with learning disabilities

NEW POST: Joanna Grace PhD Phd discusses bringing the lives of people with profound learning disabilities into the academic space, to enable research to inform policy specialneedsjungle.com/research-infor…

Just joined the other place and trying to find my friends! jo-elverson.bsky.social

When discussing serious health issues with patients, it’s crucial to ask permission each time a serious topic is broached… people may have specific needs, timing, or preferences they’d like to voice before you “go there.”

NEW SESSION!🙌🎉👩‍👧 Palliative Care for Young People Transitioning from Paediatric to Adult Services in Module 5 (Specific contexts) portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Deta… Thank you JoElversonSOH for this invaluable session APM APMEducationHub NHSE TEL Team

Yesterday I was grateful to give evidence about palliative care (wrt the assisted dying Bill) at an event in Parliament. This is what I said 🧵

Moving from children’s services into adults’ services can be a daunting time. We're launching our new transitions programme, with support from The National Lottery Community Fund, to improve the process for young people and their families. hospiceuk.org/latest-from-ho…

Great to be at the Palliative care for people with learning disabilities conference today PCPLD Network. Diane showcasing her fantastic research St Oswald's Hospice