Morag Farquhar
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Professor of Palliative Care Research, University of East Anglia (work posts, but views own)
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17 days ago
What is it like to experience exacerbations? How should clinicians talk to people about exacerbations? Read our article to find out...
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
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Morag Farquhar
NIHR ARC East of England
17 days ago
🛒Latest
#research
shows Norfolk Community Foundation's social supermarkets improves health and communities. 💷For every £1 invested, they generate £6.54 in social value by improving health, reducing stress, and strengthening community ties❗️ 📖Read the findings➡️
arc-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/news-blogs/n...
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Interested in supporting young carers? See our new review paper... reviews the support needs of Young Carers and identifies adaptions needed to questions on the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool to ensure covers young carers' support needs...
doi.org/10.1177/0269...
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https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163251363476
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Dr Ben Bowers
2 months ago
Reframing resilience in community healthcare. Our latest piece in BJCN
magonlinelibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Dr Ben Bowers
2 months ago
‼️ Community nurse in CPFT? Please consider this amazing opportunity to be more research active and support evidence based practice
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Dr Ben Bowers
2 months ago
Join us for our cross-ARC webinar on Timely Access to end of life meds. Three insightful research projects shared and I’m chairing discussions
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If you are interested in improving healthcare in prisons, work in a prison setting, or are involved in prison healthcare research then this East of England 25th Sept FREE event at UEA may be of interest:
rcgp.my.site.com/s/lt-event?i...
@arceastofengland.bsky.social
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https://rcgp.my.site.com/s/lt-event?id=a1USg000002FJqnMAG&site=a0d1i00000aKQbhAAG
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Exciting part-time Research Associate on the Marie Curie funded SNAP in Prisons study at University of East Anglia. Further details available at
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16...
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Morag Farquhar
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London
3 months ago
Still time to join our webinar on Tuesday 8 July, 11-12 to hear leading experts discuss the health and caregiving experiences of parents of children with a life-limiting condition.
#PeoLC
#palliativecare
Book your place:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bbbd0f..
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Dr Ben Bowers
5 months ago
Community nurses based in the UK? Please help us evidence how much of your work involves end of life care. Take part in our 10-min max survey study here:
cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@theqicn.bsky.social
@crystaloldman.bsky.social
@johnunsworth10.bsky.social
@rosyroo.bsky.social
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NOTICE Survey
NOTICE Survey
https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9XEniZpdCwajdpY
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Alison Leary
5 months ago
Are you registered nurse, NSW/HCA/NA/SNA who has had to accept a lower paid role/band in the last 5 years we are keen to know why. Lack of flexible working? No opportunity? Poor working conditions? Any role, any setting, any employer, anywhere in the UK
www.surveymonkey.com/r/AFCRN
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Taking lower paid roles.
Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AFCRN
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Dr Ben Bowers
5 months ago
Community nurses - how much of your work involves end of life care? Does any of this work have to go deferred? Please help with our short anonymous survey & share widely with colleagues 🙂 Take part here:
cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@crystaloldman.bsky.social
@theqicn.bsky.social
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Are you a clinician interested in
#person-centred
care for people with chronic progressive conditions? Our next "SNAP in Practice" webinar/drop-in is on 7th May 1pm-2pm - contact me to be added to the mailing list
thesnap.org.uk
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Person-Centred Care, Progressive Disease Intervention
The Support Needs Approach for Patients (SNAP) is a health care intervention which seeks to enable person-centred care for patients with progressive conditions.
https://thesnap.org.uk/
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Morag Farquhar
Alison Leary
5 months ago
Calling all UK registered
#nurses
& HCAs NSW NAs TNAs have you had to seek or take a lower paid role (AFC or hourly rate) to get the kind of work you need? Not just any NHS but any role, any setting, any employer, any UK country for any reason
www.surveymonkey.com/r/AFCRN
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Lucy Selman
6 months ago
New paper: Caregiving burden, receipt of palliative care, and the use of bereavement support: secondary analysis of population-based data
bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Congratulations Maja!
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Morag Farquhar
Dr Ben Bowers
6 months ago
🚨Our new BJGP paper - community nurses providing palliative care find collaborating with GPs harder, where practices have been moved towards remote dialogue & workforce diversification
@bjgp.bsky.social
Pls Share. Our paper:
bjgp.org/content/earl...
@theqicn.bsky.social
@crystaloldman.bsky.social
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Morag Farquhar
Are you a clinician interested in
#person-centred
care for people with chronic progressive conditions? Our next "SNAP in Practice" webinar/drop-in is on 7th May 1pm-2pm - contact me to be added to the mailing list
thesnap.org.uk
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Person-Centred Care, Progressive Disease Intervention
The Support Needs Approach for Patients (SNAP) is a health care intervention which seeks to enable person-centred care for patients with progressive conditions.
https://thesnap.org.uk/
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Morag Farquhar
UK clinicians - do you support unpaid/family carers of patients with breathlessness in advanced disease? This resource could help:
supporting-breathlessness.org.uk
. Plus we have a new batch of "mock prescription pads" in to help you signpost carers to it - just message me with your postal address!
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Are you a clinician interested in
#person-centred
care for people with chronic progressive conditions? Our next "SNAP in Practice" webinar/drop-in is on 7th May 1pm-2pm - contact me to be added to the mailing list
thesnap.org.uk
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Person-Centred Care, Progressive Disease Intervention
The Support Needs Approach for Patients (SNAP) is a health care intervention which seeks to enable person-centred care for patients with progressive conditions.
https://thesnap.org.uk/
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Morag Farquhar
Petrena
10 months ago
Carer resource ... 'supporting someone with breathlessness' Please click on the link
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Great to see this paper published on the translation of the SNAP Tool (
thesnap.org.uk
) into Swedish - congratulations to Prof Carina Lundh Hagelin & team at Marie Cederschiöld University in Stockholm!
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UK clinicians - do you support unpaid/family carers of patients with breathlessness in advanced disease? This resource could help:
supporting-breathlessness.org.uk
. Plus we have a new batch of "mock prescription pads" in to help you signpost carers to it - just message me with your postal address!
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Morag Farquhar
Healthwatch England
7 months ago
It's Young Carers Action Day 2025. The theme, ‘Give Me A Break’, highlights the need for young carers to have time to rest and recharge, while also calling on schools and employers to provide better support, helping them achieve their full potential.
@carerstrust.bsky.social
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Morag Farquhar
NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs)
7 months ago
The 2025 national
#ARCseminar
series on: The healing power of creative arts 💃🏾🎷🎵 7 May: Improving
#MentalHealth
& wellbeing with creative arts 🎭🎤🖌️ 11 June: Exploring lived experience with creative arts 🎵🕺🎭 9 July: Creative arts for
#dementia
eventbrite.com/cc/nihr-arcs...
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Super proud to be supporting Jess Blake from
@nchctrust.bsky.social
at
@arceastofengland.bsky.social
Early Career Researcher Symposium presenting her work on misaligned expectations on recovery in brain injury rehab
7 months ago
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Morag Farquhar
Alison Leary
7 months ago
In just a few days almost 2000 people have used this form to ask their MP to address a serious patient safety issue. It takes less than a minute-can you help
#protectnurse
?
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Morag Farquhar
Alison Leary
7 months ago
Did you know anyone in the UK can call themselves a
#Nurse
? Even if they have no qualifications, have been struck off or convicted of a crime? Support @DawnButlerBrent campaign to @protectnurse Write to your MP here. Pls share!
action.rcn.org.uk/page/166204/...
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Tell your MP to #ProtectNurse
I've told my MP to protect the title nurse in law. Will you? Together we need their support to see the bill up before government given time for debate. Only registered nurses should be able to use the...
https://action.rcn.org.uk/page/166204/action/1?ea.tracking.id=6byswvs8
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Morag Farquhar
NIHR ARC East of England
7 months ago
🚨 Join the @ARC_EoE team! Become a Senior Research Assistant in our Support for Ageing and Living with Long-Term Conditions Theme! 📍 Location: University of Hertfordshire 📅 Apply by: Friday 14 March 2025 Click the link to learn more and apply today!👉
my.corehr.com/pls/uhrecrui...
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Morag Farquhar
Nancy Preston
7 months ago
A difficult study to conduct during lockdowns, reminding us of the distressing experiences of dying in care homes
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https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/-distressing-experiences-of-death-and-dying-in-care-homes-during-covid-19-pandemic
https://t.co/WxygCA4KyK
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Commission on Palliative and End-of-Life Care
8 months ago
We would love to hear from you! The Commission on Palliative and End-of-Life Care has opened submissions for written evidence. You can find the link here:
palliativecarecommission.uk/submit-writt...
The deadline for submissions is Friday 28th March 2025.
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Very pleased to have been a small part of this…
#carers
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Lesley Goodburn
8 months ago
Really pleased that the final report from the Carers supporting loved ones at end of life has been published part of suite of reports
@nihr.bsky.social
carers/researchers working in partnership to improve services a great project a part of
#sethslegcy
www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/publish...
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Understanding and addressing factors affecting carers' mental health during end-of-life caregiving: synopsis of meta synthesis of literature and stakeholder collaboration
Health and Social Care Delivery Research , Published in February 2025
https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/published-articles/RTHW8493
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Morag Farquhar
MarieCurieEOLC
8 months ago
We’re excited to announce the launch of new research priorities for palliative and end of life care! These have been created in a project with the JLA and other partner organisations, including co-funders the ESRC and
@mndassoc.bsky.social
, and guided by people affected by a life limiting illness.
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Morag Farquhar
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London
8 months ago
As UK Parliament considers how the Bill on
#AssistedDying
should be implemented, if it becomes law, ARC palliative and end of life care webinar highlights the complexities and makes key recommendations: 👉
arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insight...
#AssistedDyingBill
@arceastofengland.bsky.social
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Dr Sarah Mitchell (National Clinical Director for PEoLC, NHS England) at
@mariecurieuk.bsky.social
PEoLC Research Summit today at
@wellcomecollection.bsky.social
calling for research that produces solutions… not just identifies problems
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Morag Farquhar
Marie Curie UK
8 months ago
📣 More than 80% of healthcare costs in the final year of life are spent on hospitals, according to a new report. Read more 👇
www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/art...
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More than 80% of health costs in final year of life `spent on...
Some 81% of this healthcare spending is spent in hospitals (£9.6bn), with 56% (£6.6bn) of that going on emergency hospital care.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-14361449/More-80-health-costs-final-year-life-spent-hospitals.html
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Alison Leary
8 months ago
ICYMI Right now in the UK anyone can call themselves a nurse even if they have no qualifications, have been struck off or have a conviction I'm asking my MP to support this bill
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Sabine Best
8 months ago
I'm so excited - It's almost time for the annual
@mariecurieeolc.bsky.social
Research into Practice Conference - it's online, it's free and attendees can dip in and out to view sessions of particular interest. All posters now live! (click on compass sign)
mariecurie.ivent-pro.com/events/resea...
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iVent Pro
https://mariecurie.ivent-pro.com/events/research-conference-2025
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Catherine Walshe
8 months ago
I've updated the second of my
#palliativecare
starter packs with lots of people worth a follow in the
#hpm
#hapc
#hapc25
field! The first linked to in my profile.
go.bsky.app/E8o273Y
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Morag Farquhar
NIHR ARC East of England
8 months ago
📢Interested in Care Home research? Join us for our Annual Cross-ARC Care Home Network Event. We’ll be discussing innovative ways to involve care homes in research 📅Don’t miss out and register now➡️
www.eventbrite.com/e/cross-arc-...
#ARCEoE
#CareHomeResearch
#CHNEvent2025
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Nancy Preston
9 months ago
Please join us for this webinar covering our research on sssisted dying
arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/events-train...
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Webinar: what can we learn from international research on assisted dying?
In this webinar Professors Nancy Preston and Suzanne Ost from Lancaster University will present their international research on assisted dying, which shows the complexity involved in the delivery of a...
https://arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/events-training/events-training/webinar-what-can-we-learn-international-research-assisted-dying
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Morag Farquhar
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London
9 months ago
Upcoming webinar from the NIHR ARC Palliative and End of Life Care National Leadership: What can we learn from international research on assisted dying? Find out more and register:
arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/events-train...
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Caroline Barry
9 months ago
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39805678/
First paper on the important topic of how pharmacogenomics might affect symptom management in palliative care - looking forward to exploring this further in studies in the coming year
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Pharmacogenomics and symptom management in palliative and supportive care: A scoping review - PubMed
It is both feasible and acceptable to conduct PGx testing in a supportive and palliative care setting. Many supportive care medications are amenable to PGx. Clinician adherence to recommendations is v...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39805678/
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Morag Farquhar
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London
9 months ago
New on our blog: Dr Adejoke Oluyase and Professor Irene Higginson discuss the findings from an international trial aimed at testing the effectiveness of mirtazapine, a drug repurposed for severe breathlessness in patients with advanced respiratory diseases.
tinyurl.com/nt54rva9
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Catherine Walshe
9 months ago
I've just been updating my
#palliativecare
starter pack(s). This is the link to the second of two packs:
go.bsky.app/E8o273Y
You can find pack links in people's profile. Hope this is helpful.
#hpm
#hapc
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Catherine Walshe
9 months ago
Here is the link to the first. Together there are nearly 250
#palliativecare
people to follow if you are interested.
@ctsinclair.bsky.social
also has starter pack(s) too!
#hpm
#hapc
go.bsky.app/582Y1Av
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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️🌈
11 months ago
Dear followers, If you can help... LIKE and REPOST. Many thanks!
#PalliativeCare
#HAPM
#HPM
#HAPC
#Hospice
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Lorna Fraser
9 months ago
Really humbled to have been awarded one of these
@nihr.bsky.social
REsearch Professor awards. Huge opportunity & responsibility to improve care for children with life limiting conditions and their families
@kingsnmpc.bsky.social
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
www.nihr.ac.uk/news/7-resea...
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7 research leaders awarded prestigious NIHR award
https://www.nihr.ac.uk/news/7-research-leaders-awarded-prestigious-nihr-award
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