Last shift as a specialty doctor today. Don’t remember ever experiencing levels of need so high before in so many areas of health care all at once. The risk of moral injury for staff and families doing what they can to care seems unjust. Look after each other

bmj.com/careers/job/17… Great opportunity for a colleague to join our consultant team here at Strathcarron Hospice! Deadline is the 22nd of February! BMJ thinks we're in the Highlands! We're not but there's the opportunity to live in Perthshire and enjoy the outdoors lifestyle!

The consultation for the Deteriorating patients guideline is now live and will remain open until 6pm on Tuesday 11 April. If you would like to provide feedback, the link to the consultation can be found sign.ac.uk/get-involved/c…

Finally, we can talk about SEECareUK. The first ever prospective UK wide evaluation of care of dying people in hospitals, with a focus on those not supported by specialists in palliative care. In those reviewed, there was near universal unmet need. tinyurl.com/SEECareUK

Acute care is shaped by an ideology of rescue which predicted and dictated the process of care. Suffering was not restricted to the experiences of life-limiting illness but also receiving care in an acute hospital setting. #hpm #hapc #hospice buff.ly/3JXIzgm

Today we remember the one and only Dr Kate Granger MBE who died on this day in 2016. Kate was an inspiration to thousands across the NHS and her legacy lives on in so much of what we do. 2023 marks 10 years since she launched the #HelloMyNameIs campaign.

Designing and psychometric properties of the hospitalized patients’ spiritual needs questionnaire (HPSNQ) in the medical-surgical hospital setting dlvr.it/StFPQh

Registration now open for the Inspiring Leadership Programme starting Feb 2024. Further info & course feedback: palliativecareggc.org.uk/?page_id=5937 The programme is for registered health or social care professionals or senior colleagues working in specialist #PalliativeCare in Scotland...

Just published a short paper reporting a persistent increase in home deaths in Scotland since the start of the pandemic: doi.org/10.1093/pubmed… 1/4

Latest paper highlights that deaths at home in Scotland(#DaH) throughout the pandemic, rose by 35% and continue to rise. The impact that this has on quality of #care, quality of #death and unpaid #carers requires further study. #ADRScotland ADR UK bit.ly/3YPjF92

Vacancies in #PalliativeCare adult services within Greater Glasgow & Clyde area: CNS Band 6 Glasgow Royal Infirmary apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?… CNS Band 6 Royal Alexandra Hospital apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?… ACNS Band 7 Royal Alexandra/Vale Of Leven apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

The line up for SPPC's annual conference on 22 Nov is taking shape. More details and bookings here palliativecarescotland.org.uk/content/annual…

The Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines are a great resource. So pleased to see that they continue to be developed and improved. Anna Sutherland Mark Hazelwood (mostly on Bluesky) Healthcare Improvement Scotland palliativecareguidelines.scot.nhs.uk

Still space on our EASE course in Portobello, Edinburgh! Starts 21 Feb. EASE is a free course for anyone who wants to be more comfortable and confident helping friends or family who are caring, dying or grieving. Get more info or book: [email protected]

SPPC's easy read brief on the content of the new Scottish Assisted Dying Bill, plus an updated version of our description of the legislative process. palliativecarescotland.org.uk/news/news/assi…

@PeolcPSP Marie Curie EOLC James Lind Alliance Scottish Network for Acute Palliative Care (SNAPC) Mark Hazelwood (mostly on Bluesky) Tony Duffy Bridget Johnston RN (FRCN)💙

Letter from the Cab Sec setting out SG position on the Assisted Dying Bill. SG expects costs to be "substantially higher" than set out in the Financial Memorandum. Also "the Bill in its current form is outside the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament" 1/2

Scottish Network for Acute Palliative Care (SNAPC) APM Tony Duffy Deans Buchanan ASPCP PCRS Juan E Correa-Morales Cormac Russell Dr Rachel Clarke Mary Miller (also on drmarymiller.bsky.social) Paul Keeley Kathryn Mannix Mark Hazelwood (mostly on Bluesky)

Letter correcting some misinformation which was prominent in the Westminster debate.

A clip (and vote) which leads to the heart of some harsh and very disturbing realities.