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The themes for this year's Awareness Week are: Mon 13th May - Funeral costs Tues 14th - Memorialisation Wed 15th - Grieving for a pet Thur 16th - Support for those who are estranged from/have no family Fri 17th - Diversity and inclusion at end of life

The power of research! David Currow sharing the results of the largest #rct on the use of oxycodone for chronic breathlessness EAPC VZW Palliative Care Australia #EAPC2019

Thanks again EOL Professionals - End of Life and Palliative Care!

Catching up with and enjoying the tweets from #EAPC2019 from the comfort of my sofa as am currently an enormous #pregnantlady so #thanks to those who took the time to tweet the key messages! There is some super #palliativecare #hpm #research going on.

Imagine a world where the #NHS only part funded cardiology, where 3/4 angioplasties relied on second hand clothing and fun runs. This is the reality for #EndOfLifeCare

Excellent letter by Simon Noah Etkind in BMJ on assisted dying "The inequity of care provision at the end of life is neglected in the debate about assisted dying." bmj.com/content/365/bm…

This is a wonderful initiative: a 'make a wish' ambulance to fulfill end of life requests: see a mountain or a concert, go to the beach or a sports game, visit your family or the chip shop. ambulancewishfoundation.org.uk They are willing to consider all requests. Pass it on! 1/

This is great news. Not just the money (which let’s face it is 2.5% of what the Hospice sector has to raise annually), but the message. Great that the PM acknowledges funding challenges in the hospice sector, and to have his support. Well done Tracey Bleakley Robert Peston Hospice UK

Such a good article by Charlotte Church, with strong message about palliative care. By sharing her experience, she will make a difference to others. Also, she is totally right about ‘syringe drivers’. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This simple test could prevent life-long deafness in babies born with the CMV virus👇 #newborns #newparents #CMV

Made our BBC Breakfast debut this morning talking about the importance of #CMV screening to prevent deafness in #newborn babies. Great work being done Hear Glue Ear. Thanks also for the lovely congrats @stephbreakfast & best wishes for your pregnancy!

I’ll be giving a public talk in Cambridge on 12th Nov about death, dying, symptoms, society, policy and palliation. Come!

Volunteers are unequally distributed across end of life care settings. Catherine Walshe notes that her local hospice, 10 beds, has 700 volunteers. Her local care home, 60 beds, has 3 volunteers.

Emerging from #newborn haze and catching up on tweets to see if I’ve got any functioning #neurones left up there... it’s 50:50 at the mo #newmum #11weeksold

We're celebrating this morning after winning 'The Michael Howard Award' at the Hospice UK awards last night in recognition of our innovative partnership with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Addenbrooke's Palliative Care Team & our #NurseLedBed scheme! To read more>>bit.ly/2XAd6aB 🍾

Good to see discussion about death and dying in the news: What we can all learn from this deathbed photo. (Spoiler alert: it’s actually a heartwarming story!) bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…

First international consensus. COVID-19: guidance on palliative care from a European Respiratory Society international task force erj.ersjournals.com/content/56/3/2… @wolfsonpallcare

Are you a clinician working with breathless patients? We would like to hear about your experience of the hand-held fan (whether or not you use the fan in your clinical practice). Follow this link for our 5-minute survey (11 Qs) @wolfsonpallcare hyms.ac.uk/FFITS

The Breathing, Thinking, Functioning model: an educational tool that can break the vicious cycle of chronic #breathlessness Summary: phpc.cam.ac.uk/pcu/educationa… Article: npj Journals Prim Care Resp Med: nature.com/articles/s4153… PCRS British Thoracic Society (BTS) Rachel Tuffnell 💙 (she/her) CamBTF

Palliative medicine and nursing specialists can be expert guides, teachers, leaders, and developers of best practice, but improving end-of-life care is clearly everyone’s business, writes David Oliver (also on Blue Sky) bmj.com/content/377/bm…