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  • Advance decisions

    1 hour

    Cancer and Palliative CareCancer and Palliative CareGerontologyGerontology

    Learn the history of advance decisions and what they are, learn how to advise someone who is planning to draft an advance decision, and learn about legal issues and ambiguities regarding advance decisions.

  • An introduction to advance care planning in practice

    1 hour

    Cancer and Palliative CareCancer and Palliative CareGerontologyGerontology

    The purpose of this activity is to review the benefits and potential risks of advance care planning, how to and when to broach the subject with patients, how the mental capacity act relates to advance care planning, and the types of documents that can ari

  • Ask the consultant: Palliative care medicine

    1 hour

    Cancer and Palliative CareCancer and Palliative Care

    In our series for internal medicine trainees, Dr Chris Farnham, medical director of the Heart of Kent Hospice, answers users’ questions on switching opioids, managing nausea and vomiting, prescribing in patients with renal and liver disease, starting fl

  • Breaking bad news: a how to do it guide

    30 minutes

    Cancer and Palliative CareCancer and Palliative CareHaematology, Pathology and InfectionHaematology, Pathology and Infection

    A module on breaking bad news in a sensitive and individual way, and developing a clinical plan to support future consultations.

  • Care of the dying patient in the community

    1 hour

    Cancer and Palliative CareCancer and Palliative Care

    The purpose of this activity is to review the epidemiology of the preferred place of death, factors associated with achieving preferred place of death, how to identify those in the last year of life. It also aimed to review the concept of anticipatory car

  • End of life care: a guide for GPs

    30 minutes

    Cancer and Palliative CareCancer and Palliative Care

    This read, reflect, and respond module in the form of an audio podcast explores how to achieve a good death"

  • Nausea and vomiting in palliative care

    1 hour

    Cancer and Palliative CareCancer and Palliative Care

    The purpose of this activity is to review the underlying causes, investigations, choice of antiemetic, and antiemetic side effects in patients with nausea and vomiting in the palliative care setting

  • Palliative care in non-malignant disease

    1 hour

    Cancer and Palliative CareCancer and Palliative Care

    A comprehensive guide to recognising when a patient needs palliative care at end stage respiratory, heart or renal failure.

  • Palliative care in patients with heart failure

    1 hour

    Cancer and Palliative CareCancer and Palliative Care

    The purpose of this activity is to review the epidemiology, symptoms, limitations, quality of life, palliative care interventions, and disease trajectory in patients with heart failure.

  • The management of chronic breathlessness in patients with advanced and terminal illness

    1 hour

    Respiratory and SmokingRespiratory and SmokingCancer and Palliative CareCancer and Palliative Care

    The purpose of this activity is to review the epidemiology of chronic breathlessness in patients with advanced and terminal illness, review the impact and measurement of chronic breathlessness in patients with advanced and terminal illness, discuss the ev

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