✨Really proud of this talk. Getting invited to speak at End Well this year was one of the highlights of my professional career so far. ✨I was honored to share my message about how we can better support and grow the field of palliative care. 🙏🏼I hope you’ll listen and share. youtu.be/MWw_H6BIwWc?...

Episode 2 of #BBC Inside Health programme, 3-parter with @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social and @katherinesleeman.bsky.social

“I even got people dancing!” Amanda’s blog about speaking at last week’s conference @pccongress.bsky.social #pcc2025

Beyond excited that @drjrubenstein.bsky.social has travelled to the #pcc2025 and enjoyed our conversation

Such a treat to see @drnwiggins.bsky.social interview @doctoroxford.com about her work and fabulous writing at @pccongress.bsky.social

Dear @theguardian.com Why have you culled 33 signatories from our letter in today's Observer? Mainly medics, responding to last week's full signatory letter on #AssistedDying? www.theguardian.com/theobserver/...

Older people make up the majority of those dying each year. @gerisoc.bsky.social concerned about the lack of representation from older people’s healthcare specialists and older people themselves on the witness list for the Assisted Dying Bill - have a look at our website for updates

Brilliant piece reflecting on the role of palliative care and societal coersion by Janice Turner in the Times today #assisteddying

Don't suffer from #PCC2025 FOMO Early Bird Closing 24 January at 5pm Get your tickets pccongress.org.uk/registration/ Full Programme available via the website Day 1 - pccongress.org.uk/day-1-progra... Day 2 - pccongress.org.uk/day-2-progra... #PalliativeCare #Event

The final episode of my Radio 4 series The Body Politic - on assisted dying - is at 11am this morning, and on BBC Sounds after. We step back to look at the case for assisted dying- and why there’s such strong opposition.

useful thread on the assisted dying hearings today

"Data from the DWP reveals that 1 in 5 people given 6 months to live went on to live over 3 years.." Can we accept a reality where these people would miss 3 years with loved ones due to our inherent poor ability to prognosticate? #assisteddying

a period of 11 months contains the releases of all these films: Dog Man Wolf Man Better Man Monkey Man Different Man Hit Man Working Man

Why Britain’s doctors are in revolt To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients at risk. A must read from @doctoroxford.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

With the shocking revelation the Health Secretary is using taxpayers money to pay the GMC’s legal costs, @anaesunited.bsky.social need our help more than ever to protect patient safety. You can support them here👇 www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-mi...

I really enjoyed speaking with the kind and thoughtful @markmardell.bsky.social who is doing a sterling job of raising the uncomfortable questions on a daily basis. @apmposts.bsky.social @katherinesleeman.bsky.social @doctoroxford.bsky.social

We have a new consultant post! Want to look forward to coming to work? Come work with the best team in town*; drop me an email to see how this could work for you www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Wilts... *as rated by me and @doctoroxford.bsky.social

Are you afraid of what might be waiting for you at the end of your life, or the life of people you love? Read this. This is my daily reality as a palliative consultant. Far from the terrifying rhetoric of last week. Read this. And tell the people you love. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

The stories of the ordinary dying doesn't win votes but is my day to day reality and it is important those coming to the end of their life know that it is likely to be theirs too. #ordinarydying

Present Indicative nailed it

"It’s over to you, Streeting& Keir Starmer. What will you do now about those anguished, frail, pain-racked patients who sit and quake in death’s proximity as they are failed by the NHS, social care and society at large?" @doctoroxford.bsky.social not holding back www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Palliative Care Doctor, Dr Rachel Clarke, "There are thousands of people suffering unnecessary pain" "We may be in a peculiar position where we have a state funded dying service but we don't have a state funded palliative care service"

Palliative Care Doctor, Dr Rachel Clarke, "If we had robust palliative care, then many many fewer people might feel as though this is their only option" "Wes Streeting has said patients will be coerced to take their life due to a lack of care" "Wes Streeting,what are you now going to do about it"

@cloudylemonade.bsky.social HOLLY!!! HI!!! 👋🏼🤗

*NEW* estimates of palliative care need in the UK: 2017-2021. bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Putting the final touches to our programme on the funding crisis in end of life care, which airs Thursday on ITV1. I am so grateful to those who opened up to us about their experiences and the hospices who let us in. Keeping Care Alive: Hospices in Crisis? 8:30pm Thursday, ITV1

The official Association of Palliative Medicine for UK and Ireland is here! Follow @apmposts.bsky.social for all the APM, end of life and palliative tea from UK & Ireland #palliative #EOL

this is literally what it feels like to have astigmatism

From Sure Start to youth centres, cutting children’s services is a false economy | Torsten Bell

Like many others, I feel very strongly about this. @ilovepathology.bsky.social, chair of NCEPOD, expresses appropriate concerns about how we miss far too often the opportunities to discuss end of life care. Report by Matthew Limb in the @bmj.com. #EOLC #PalliativeCare #ChoosingWisely #MedSky

Very excited by the brilliant quality abstracts that have come in for PCC 2025!

Vaccines save lives. Keep repeating the message. It’s the truth.

Is sharing our writing a thing here? 😊 Proud of this piece because it represents the work of so many trying to make medicine and communication better for our patients. #MedSky www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/action/showP...

Woohoo! We're hiring 🤓. Want to work in a team that values you as an individual? Want to flex the brain muscles that give you joy and mean you look forward to coming to work? Come live your best life with us #palliative #pallsky @doctoroxford.bsky.social www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Wilts...

🪧 Train in Palliative Medicine in the United Kingdom 📅 Open 14 Nov 2024 - 5 Dec 2024 ❔ Interviews 25 - 27 Mar 2025 👨‍⚕️ Start 6 Aug 2025 🌐 https://buff.ly/3Cun9Xj @rcphysicians.bsky.social @rcpsglasgow.bsky.social #choosepallmed #palliativecare https://buff.ly/3UXXPPL @pccongress.bsky.social

Dear followers, If you can help... LIKE and REPOST. Many thanks! #PalliativeCare #HAPM #HPM #HAPC #Hospice

Today, on "Bluesky is educational": the inside of a penguin's mouth. Seemingly designed as "a tube of pure horror."

Uncomfortable and important article by Prof Mark Taubert around what an assisted dying death actually looks like. For many it is worse than the natural death the vast majority have now. These peaceful undramatic deaths have been lost in the polarised rhetoric. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

Homeschooling because your child could not access mainstream education? You have days left to have your say on how our education system needs to change. More details below. Reposts welcome - thank you. sendmatters.co.uk/2024/11/12/f...

Absolutely this 👇. One of the best explanations about this describes how 'nice culture' can be as harmful as 'nasty culture'- and much harder to call out because it casts the dissenting person as 'not nice'. But 'nice culture' stifles cognitive diversity. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

As a Dr going into neurology training not realising palliative medicine was a thing & feeling like my holistic way of doing things was 'too different', I read Introducing Palliative Care and the light was turned on. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2024...