Palliative care for chronic respiratory disease: integrated care in outpatient settings

Patients diagnosed with pulmonary-related cancers enter well-established care pathways (Lung Clinical Expert Group, 2017) to receive MDT support. Ultimately, and from clinical experience, as the...

Life is for living: the contribution of the arts and gardens

Fancourt and Finn (2019) conducted a scoping review for the WHO of the global evidence of the effects of the arts on health and wellbeing. Their definition of the arts included performing arts such...

Support for unpaid carers: the working carers’ passport

Many NHS staff, including nursing colleagues, are caring for friends or family outside of work, balancing the pressures of caring as well as working..

Donepezil for dementia due to Alzheimer's disease

The objectives of Birks and Harvey's updated Cochrane systematic review were to determine the clinical efficacy and safety of donepezil in people with mild, moderate or severe dementia due to...

The profile of place of death

Shifting pain management in the community

Current thinking, developed over many years of turning routinely to pharmacological measures, presumes that pain should never be experienced in the modern world, and that there is a pill that can...

Hand and other hygiene practices

‘Role modelling good hygiene practices to students and others should be part of professional practice.’.

Experimenting with gene silencing in cardiovascular medicine

The gene-silencing research outlined in this article is just some of the innovative work taking place in cardiovascular medicine. Next month's column will discuss tissue engineering and regeneration,...

District nursing today

‘The lack of consistency regarding remuneration, clinical band, prescribing, role and job title undermines the public's understanding of the title ‘district nurse’.’ .

If Scotland can, why not England?

Managing Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation conversations in the community

Four main themes emerged from the interviews: (1) learning through experiences, (2) feeling responsible to get it right, (3) initiating the conversation and (4) barriers to DNACPR discussions..

Use of catheter maintenance solutions by community nursing staff: an assessment

In recent years, catheter maintenance solutions (Table 1) have been used primarily to minimise the effects of recurrent encrustation and blockage (Shepherd et al, 2017). A catheter maintenance...