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…fe) Bill1 currently before the House of Lords seeks to legalise physician-assisted suicide following a request from an individual who is predicted to have…

…organs, mainly the kidneys. If hypertensive individuals receive early intervention, the majority of these complications and deaths from CKD can be…

…uality improvement project. National benchmarking data from the Getting It Right First Time programme were used to contextualise performance. These benchmarks are no…

…hours of informal care per week and lost 25 hours of paid work. Emotional support represented the largest share of time (36%), followed by househ…

…ptom management (60%), referral to community PC services (40%), advance care planning (26%) and the prescription of opioids and benzodiazepines (23%)…

…nic were assessed at baseline, 6 months and 12 months using the American College of Rheumatology Neuropsychological Battery. CI was classified based on standardised z-scores in cognitive …

…eneral Information Questionnaire and the Chinese version of the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale. Exploratory factor analysis was used to extract SCs, and assoc…

…patients each month.This publication’s goal is to highlight the quality improvement initiatives that were put in place to increase outpatient medication reconc…

…HNC) undergoing radiotherapy (RT) and investigate the effect of nurse-led support on symptom management.Methods Fifty patients with histologicall…

…e September issue of BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care titled ‘Palliative care in cirrhosis of the liver’.1 This valuable work highlighted the…

…‘care that seamlessly moves between care settings’. 1 To ensure good care, adequate information for clinical decision making is essential…

…ts (regularity, self-care, mindfulness, reflective practice and cognitive–behavioural therapy) and three supporting elements (peer support, educational sessi…