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Nepean Hospital is set to welcome a dedicated palliative care unit, the first specialist facility of its kind in the area. Nepean Palliative care unit consumer focus group session. The new palliative ...
Context A rapid method of methadone conversion known as the Perth Protocol is commonly used in Australian palliative care units. There has been no follow-up or validation of this method and no ...
Each palliative care physician should educate himself or herself about the local cannabis industry and the products currently being consumed by patients in their State/jurisdiction. Cannabis is being ...
When doctors told Shanna Sieck that her nearly 7-year-old son Mason needed to be put in hospice after his five-year-long battle with cancer, her family moved from Grinnell into a care center in ...
The couple tied the knot at the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in Smethwick where Carol, who has inoperable stomach cancer, was being cared for. Fighting back tears, Carol, aged 75, from ...
The Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network will host a free community awareness and education event on May 13, during National Palliative Care Week (May 11-17). Interested members ...
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Fears are growing that dying children are not getting the end-of-life care they deserve while the country's only publicly-funded paediatric palliative care specialist is on extended leave. Starship ...
Senior doctors at Starship Hospital were told late last month the sole specialist is away until the end of April, and a replacement cannot be found. President of the Paediatric Society Dr. Owen ...
Research led by the Ageing and Dementia Research Centre at BU has resulted in the development of a toolkit that’s helping to transform nutritional care for people with dementia. This has reached 3,046 ...
Confidential and compassionate, SAFE starts with We believe you. /stories/safe-provides-compassionate-care-sexual-assault-patients Lenora Starr is an Indigenous cultural safety practice lead of ...
The study also found strong variation in the percentage of decedents with an ACP visit by state in 2016—from just 0.14% to 10.4%—and changes in claims rates by specialty, with the biggest gains coming ...