Correspondence to Dr Francesca Rusalen, Woman’s and Child’s Department, Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care Service, University of Padua, Padova 35100, Italy; francesca.rusalen{at}aopd.veneto.it ...

Objectives To establish practice among senior palliative medicine physicians regarding anticipatory prescribing to manage a terminal haemorrhage. To generate a guideline informed by data collected.

Objective Terminal haemorrhage is a rare and distressing emergency in palliative oncology. We present an algorithm for the management of terminal haemorrhage in patients likely to receive end-of-life ...

Background It is essential that the physical environments in which inpatient palliative care is provided support the needs of patients and the facilitate the multidimensional delivery of palliative ...

Objectives For many people with advanced kidney disease, their physical, psychological and emotional needs remain unmet. Kidney supportive care, fully integrating specialist kidney and palliative care ...

Correspondence to Dr Des McMahon, Academic Department of Palliative Medicine, Our Lady's Hospice and Care Services, Dublin D6W RY72, Ireland; Des.McMahon{at}hse.ie Undergraduate palliative care ...

Background Hospice Day Services provide support to people to enable them to live with life limiting illness. The focus is on enhancing well-being and supporting people to continue to participate in ...

Background Death is now an event of older age, and living with multiple long-term conditions – multimorbidity (MLTC-M) is now the norm in later life. People dying with MLTC-M report the same symptoms ...

Background Current models for breaking bad news are inadequate in meeting the needs of people with learning disabilities (LD). People with LD are often not told of a life-limiting diagnosis. The task ...

Background Tapentadol is a relatively new centrally-acting analgesic medication. Tapentadol is approved for the treatment of severe chronic pain and may reduce the need for strong opioids and reduce ...

Background Ethnically diverse groups are underrepresented in undergraduate medical education in the UK. Students prefer more inclusive patient representation during teaching. In alignment with our ...

Background Hospital discharge letters for End of Life Care patients are often poor. The lack of communication from the hospital to community teams regarding essential issues which is needed for ...