Recently presented the work we've been doing around a #PalliativeCare & #EndOfLife Care Nursing Career Framework and Qualification in Specialty at NHS England.

@TeessideHospice, a highly regarded organisation that operates across South Tees & North Yorkshire is seeking a Director of Clinical Development reporting to the CEO, working closely with the Director of Nursing & Quality. #PalliativeCare #Hospice #PEOLC www.teessidehospice.org/vacancies/cl...

Celebrating #VEDay80thAnniversary for those no longer with us who lived through & fought for our future. We remember that times were infinitely worse for those who lost their lives & lived through WW2 than we have now & in the last few years. #WeWillRememberThem #VEDay80

This week has been emotional and life changing for our family, with the loss of our loved Barbara Kirk. An amazing, strong and determined Mum to Zachary & Xanthe, loving wife to Lee Kirk , sister to Stuart, Haley, Rachel, Martin, Jillian, Julie & Mandy, daughter of Patricia

#covidreflectionsday. Challenges faced by health & social care professionals, in what was a prolonged Major Incident, had immense impact on both them & wider society. The most challenging time of my professional career, made especially difficult being separated from family, friends & loved ones.

As a #Trustee of @TeessideHospice, it was great to join family, friends & colleagues at their #Charity Ball to raising funds so the #Hospice can deliver #SpecialistLevelPalliativeCare to people with #PalliativeCare needs across #Teesside & #NorthYorkshire - we had a ball 😜

Good piece on issues and possible solutions with accessing end-of-life medicines in the community, and pleased to be able to contribute.. pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/feat...

Palliative Medicine Consultation Reduces Readmission Significantly in Certain Diagnoses: A Retrospective Analysis - Carissa N. Depew, Michelle Wood et al. 2025 Includes sepsis, heart failure & pneumonia - not just a review re the usual cancer diagnoses. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

An evening spent making home ready for Christmas. Eventually thawed out with a cheeky drink 😁 #SaltburnByTheSea #LoveYorkshire #LoveSaltburn #ItsBeginningToLookALotLikeChristmas #YorkshireCoast #Christmas

As it was #ChristmasJumperDay, was good to join the team at NHS Enhalnd today be festive whilst working on all things #CommunityServices #PalliativeCare #PEOLC #Frailty #PersonalisedCare #EHCH #NHS

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

@ewidera.bsky.social may be of interest!

Using sedation at the end of life – information for healthcare staff An international study on #palliative sedation is empowering patients and families with informed choices, supported by short animations for healthcare staff www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3KL...

Honoured to be selected as a top 3 finalist at the #NorthEast Bright Ideas in Health awards #BIHA2024 in the Research for local health needs category 🏆 Our #Research on #PalliativeCare & #Inequalities in pleural #Mesothelioma means the world to me 🫁 Funded by @mesouk.bsky.social

@deathstudiespod.bsky.social Beth's has come up with a list of five books to help if you are dealing with death and bereavement. You can read the list here www.open.ac.uk/blogs/news/a...

Example of learning from other systems for proactive care George Winder explaining how the local fire brigade moved from reactive to proactive care reduced fires from 3000/year to 300/year We need to copy this approach for proactive care #BGSConf

If you are showing an interest in the upcoming assisted dying bill - you must also read this #NCEPOD report into End of Life Care published this week…. ncepod.org.uk/2024eolc/Ful...

Timely report into current planning & coordination of end of life care: National Confidedential Enq into Pt Outcomes & Death shows gaps in services, breaching 2019 NICE guidance for commissioning & providing adequate, timely planning & delivery of #EoL care & access to palliative care teams. 🧵 1/

For an introvert, who usually shies away from public speaking…. I genuinely had a wonderful time tonight at my invited talk at UCL #London Presenting & then discussing my life/career & #research on #Inequity in #PalliativeCare & #Lung disease 🫁 - great to meet everyone ☺️

Please retweet & follow me if you're interested in #PalliativeCare, #EndOfLifeCare & enabling people to 'Live as well as possible, for as long as possible'. #ImproveEOLC #PEOLC #EoL #AgedCare #FutureCare #Frailty #CancerCare #Nurse #NeighbourhoodHealth #NHS #Hospice

Paramedics should be supported to make complex clinical decisions specific to #palliative care contexts with confidence and navigate holistic care pathways that prioritise referral functions available to other community-based clinicians. #hpm #hapc buff.ly/3YRr2NF

The Late Breaking Call for Abstracts will open on Monday 2 December and will close, with no exceptions, on Friday 27 December at 09:00 hrs UK time #PCC2025