A new report published today shows how palliative and end of life care in the UK was compromised by shortages of PPE, essential medicines, and equipment, because these services were not seen as ‘frontline NHS’ in the pandemic. Better End of Life – a collaboration between Marie Curie, King’s College London Cicely Saunders Institute, Hull York Medical School, […]
Key issues in bereavement care and anticipatory prescribing
Two new research summaries from the Palliative & End of Life Care Group in Cambridge, on anticipatory prescribing and on bereavement care, pull together the group’s latest research on those themes. The summaries uncover key issues for practitioners and policymakers, including effects of the pandemic. Anticipatory prescribing for adults at end of life […]
A silent epidemic of grief: COVID-19 is leaving both the bereaved and bereavement care practitioners struggling to cope
Drastic changes in bereavement care have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, amid a flood of demand for help from bereaved people, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. The first major study of the pandemic-related changes in bereavement care has found that the switch to remote working has helped some services to reach […]
85% of GP practices in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough use data sharing system supported by Primary Care Unit research
85% of GP practices in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area now use an electronic data sharing system designed by practitioners, patients, IT specialists and commissioners in the region. This initiative is underpinned by research carried out by Dr Mila Petrova and Dr Stephen Barclay at the Primary Care Unit’s Palliative and End of Life Care Group. The data sharing system, […]
Dr Pia Thiemann – from health risks for female elite athletes to bereavement support
Congratulations to Dr Pia Thiemann, who joined Dr Stephen Barclay’s group in 2013, for her newly awarded PhD from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Pia was encouraged to progress her PhD alongside her Cambridge work on the DIME studies, which explored those factors in undergraduate medical education which might influence the quality of patient care provided by […]