The research evidence for the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of ‘anticipatory prescribing’ for people approaching the end of life at home or in care homes remains unclear, say researchers at the University of Cambridge, who have just studied the most recent research on the topic. In standard anticipatory prescribing, which is commonplace in the UK, […]
New approaches needed to help ease symptoms amongst people in the last days of life
Patients in the last days of life at home or in care homes sometimes need fast access to medications to ease their symptoms but new approaches are needed to ensure this happens, say Dr Ben Bowers and colleagues in the BMJ today. For patients dying in the community, rapid and tailored access to last-days-of-life medications […]
Uncertainty in serious illness: to the state of the science, and beyond
Dr Simon Noah Etkind is a member of the Cambridge Palliative and End of Life Care Research Group (PELiCam) at the University of Cambridge. His research addresses uncertainty in serious illness. In this blog he describes a rapid prioritisation approach at a workshop he organised, to develop and rank uncertainty research priorities. The workshop was […]
Invitation to community nurses to take part in an end-of-life care research study
Dr Alessandro Bosco, Dr Ben Bowers and colleagues at the Cambridge Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research Group (PELiCam) are conducting a research study investigating the way community nurses working in district and/or care home nursing teams have been providing end-of-life care since the start of the pandemic. We are inviting 72 community nurses to tell us […]
How the QNI Community Nursing Research Forum is building much-needed research capacity in nursing
The Community Nursing Research Forum has acquired 439 members in less than a year, and is helping to support clinical academic careers and research activity amongst community-based nurses. Only 8% of all NIHR award holders since 2013 were nurses; and community and primary care nurse-led research remains particularly scarce. Just 37 nurse-held NIHR personal awards […]
‘Just in Case’ medicines don’t always help people dying at home
New research reveals the complexities of making ‘Just in Case’ medications available for people nearing the end of life at home. Patients, informal carers and healthcare professionals interviewed for the research said their presence could cause distress as well as comfort. Some families reported difficulties persuading nurses to administer the medications to relieve suffering. The […]
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