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Patient survey reveals preference and economic cost of breathlessness services

Written by | 28 Aug 2022

A new study has examined patient preferences for breathlessness services and determined the cost savings of these provisions for the NHS. The paper is published today in Thorax by researchers […]

Hospices vary widely in prescribing of “comfort kit” medications

Written by | 14 May 2022

When a person nearing the end of their life enters hospice care, their hospice agency’s doctors may prescribe a “comfort kit” of small amounts of medications that their […]

Vulnerable populations not receiving cancer survivorship care plans

Written by | 20 Nov 2021

Study identified which groups were less likely to receive plans Survivorship care plans are an important tool to help cancer survivors transition out of active treatment and back […]

Make general anaesthesia more widely available for dying patients’

Written by | 22 Oct 2021

General anaesthesia is widely used for surgery and diagnostic interventions, to ensure the patient is completely unconscious during these procedures. However, in a paper published in Anaesthesia (a journal of […]

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