Anticipatory medications are reassuring and unsettling! Our new research paper Age_and_Ageing Uncomfortable, important insights from patients and families.... thread - 🧵1/8 academic.oup.com/ageing/article… The Queen's Nursing Institute Marie Curie EOLC Cambridge Palliative & End of Life Research Group Dementia UK Dr Sarah Russell RN Sam Sherrington RN DN QN FQNI MSc 💙

Dr Ben Bowers claire green RN DN CPT QN(hon) Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse Age_and_Ageing The Queen's Nursing Institute Marie Curie EOLC Cambridge Palliative & End of Life Research Group Dementia UK Sam Sherrington RN DN QN FQNI MSc 💙 Your research really is excellent. It has made me stop and think about how we prescribe anticipatory meds when discharging from hospital. It has changed me thinking.

The ADDoN programme is developed & delivered by NHS England in partnership with the Uni of Herts & is open to nurses in band 8b/8c roles. Applications from nurses from an ethnic minority background are particularly welcomed. Find out more & apply applycpd.com/HERTS/courses/… Carys A-G

Great opportunity for us to share our Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust EOL experiences. Whose in? Cath Slater RN QN @jayniefeet

Find out your compassionate superpower score. Take the Hospice UK Dying Matters Awareness Week quiz to find out how to have meaningful conversations with others at work, in the community or at home. hospiceuk.org/our-campaigns/… #DMAW23 #DyingMattersAtWork

Blessed to co facilitate a #Schwartz Round with Anna Dillon on #International_Nursing_Day to talk about death dying & bereavement as part of #DyingMattersAtWork. Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust we work with wonderful people. Thank you 🙏 @RivkahMiar

This year Dying Matters Awareness Week is focussing Dying Matters at Work - watch this video by Hospice UK to hear how others approach this difficult subject. ow.ly/m1OH50Oju2R

It's not easy to talk about death and dying. As well as supporting Hospice UK Dying Matters Awareness Week we wanted to share these workshops from Isabel Hospice The first Start the Conversation Workshop is on 23 May isabelhospice.org.uk/training-cours… #DMAW23

We’re proud to be supporting Mental Health Foundation this #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek - 15 to 21 May. Join in and help to create a world with good mental health for all. Find out more and get involved mentalhealth.org.uk/mhaw #ToHelpMyAnxiety

Anticipatory prescribing - our new systematic review of the latest evidence There is still inadequate evidence regarding the effectiveness and acceptability of prescriptions Pls share: spcare.bmj.com/content/early/… Cambridge Palliative & End of Life Research Group The Queen's Nursing Institute QNIS Royal College of General Practitioners RCN District and Community Nursing Forum WeCommNurses 💙

'... around 10 % of annual healthcare spend goes on the roughly 1 % who die each year.' Yet this money frequently escalates unhelpful interventions, instead of enhancing wellbeing as death approaches. Time for reform. Bravo Richard Smith & Libby Sallnow reform.uk/comment/time-f…

Dying Matters Awareness Week starts today 💛 Patricia, Mumtaz & Lucy add their voices to this animation exploring the power of language at the end of someone’s life. 👉 Please help share this post. Thank you. #DMAW24 #TheWayWeTalkAboutDyingMatters North London Hospice

Humbled today to co facilitate a special Schwartz Round exploring the language used re death and dying #DyingMatters #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek. The way we talk about dying matters. Blown away by such powerful contributions Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust @RivkahMiar

Pretty chuffed with myself today. MSc officially done! ⁦Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust⁩

Any Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust community nurses out there? please take part in Ben’s crucial research into end of life care.

Our Anticipatory Prescribing Research Alert (2023): a excellent resource for clinicians and members of the public - as we consider how we can best meet dying symptom control needs at home: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/c0xDP5… Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge Cambridge Palliative & End of Life Research Group The Queen's Nursing Institute QNIS

Our new BJCN Editorial: 'Providing effective dying symptom control at home'. We sometimes need to do much better as an integrated care team (sadly)! BJCN Marie Curie EOLC The Queen's Nursing Institute QNIS Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge Jesus College Dr Crystal Oldman CBE EdD RN RHV QN FRCN ➡️britishjournalofcommunitynursing.com/content/editor…

My new blog on why we need to get dying symptom control right and some of the key challenges

🚨Our new Research Repository for healthcare professionals on injectable anticipatory prescribing. ➡️bit.ly/4gLhFWV Please share widely!! Our growing body of research explained and in one place thanks to NIHR ARC East of England & Cambridge Palliative & End of Life Research Group QNIS The Queen's Nursing Institute Dr Crystal Oldman CBE EdD RN RHV QN FRCN

We are delighted to announce the National Advance Care Planning Day of 2025 🆕On the 7th May & the weeks leading up to it👇 😍 Host your own event 😍 Attend national conference (for free) 😍 Download & share resources 😍 Learn, engage and empower others AdvanceCarePlanDay.org