Table of contents
September 2011 - Volume 1 - 2
Abstracts Help the Hospices conference
Editorials
- Palliative care development in Africa: how can we provide enough quality care? (1 September, 2011)
- Editor's choice
(1 September, 2011)
Features
- Compassionate community networks: supporting home dying (1 September, 2011)
Short cuts
- Articles of interest in other scholarly journals (1 September, 2011)
Research
- Hospital cancer deaths: late diagnosis and missed opportunity (24 August, 2011)
- Sources of spiritual well-being in advanced cancer (14 July, 2011)
Republished research
Case report
Education
Book review
Poem
- Poet's corner: Request (1 September, 2011)
Abstracts Help the Hospices conference
- Care quality commission compliance and frequently asked questions (1 September, 2011)
- Sharing clinical audit (1 September, 2011)
- Gaining ‘real-time’ feedback to influence patient and family care (1 September, 2011)
- Learning from adult services: expert patients to expert parents (1 September, 2011)
- Home based volunteers – bridging the gap between respite visits (1 September, 2011)
- User involvement in establishing a new young people's hospice (1 September, 2011)
- Part of the team? The experiences of support staff in British hospices (1 September, 2011)
- RACE (Rapid Access to Carers at End of Life) (1 September, 2011)
- Enriching the experience of patients on a hospice ward with volunteer carers (1 September, 2011)
- Partnership working to deliver seven day access to specialist palliative care (1 September, 2011)
- Helping the developing world…..the story of an outward looking hospice (1 September, 2011)
- Motor neuron disease and music therapy – a holistic approach (1 September, 2011)
- Corneal donation in palliative care: a doctor's perspective (1 September, 2011)
- Breaking bad news to people with learning disabilities (1 September, 2011)
- Transdermal opioids: are we plastering over the cracks? (1 September, 2011)
- The ACT children's palliative care handbook for GPs (1 September, 2011)
- “Together we care” – bringing hospice and school communities together (1 September, 2011)
- Enhanced summary care record “significant conversations” template (1 September, 2011)
- The impact of the action learning set approach in nursing homes (1 September, 2011)
- The butterfly project (1 September, 2011)
- Children's hospices services in Germany – a study on the quality of support (1 September, 2011)
- We're living well, but dying matters (1 September, 2011)
- Trains boats and planes (1 September, 2011)
- Learning at your fingertips (1 September, 2011)
- Making volunteers count (1 September, 2011)
- Closed bereavement therapy group: a new way forward? (1 September, 2011)
- Does an inpatient hospice have a role in medical student CP1 training? (1 September, 2011)
- Putting patients in control (1 September, 2011)
- Development of national audit tools for hospice community services (1 September, 2011)
- South west region clinical incidents benchmarking project (1 September, 2011)
- South west region infection prevention and control network (1 September, 2011)
- The provision of public education – a hospice's journey (1 September, 2011)
- Innovation in nursing practice: developing a nurse led community unit (1 September, 2011)
- Managing fluctuations in legacy income (1 September, 2011)
- Measuring clinical outcomes for hospices (1 September, 2011)
- Productive ward at Earl Mountbatten Hospice (1 September, 2011)
- Developing a carers group (1 September, 2011)
- Commissioning end of life services using care profiles (1 September, 2011)
- Grief and bereavement – supporting siblings of a children's hospice service (1 September, 2011)
- Nurse-led palliative care clinic: optimising choice for patients (1 September, 2011)
- Supporting the whole family: caring for children when a parent is dying (1 September, 2011)
- Taboo or not taboo: a collaborative hospice/theatre/schools project (1 September, 2011)
- Developing a clinical skills competency framework (1 September, 2011)
- Care team volunteers (1 September, 2011)
- The journey from paediatric intensive care to children's hospice (1 September, 2011)
- Enhancing user engagement (1 September, 2011)
- The intelligence hub approach to sharing and learning (1 September, 2011)
- Clinical compassion (1 September, 2011)
- Hospice support services from diagnosis to infinity and beyond …. (1 September, 2011)
- Seamless service on the isle of man (1 September, 2011)
- Psychological contracts of hospice nurses (1 September, 2011)
- Innovative approach by the hospice involvement in schools national curriculum (1 September, 2011)
- An innovative approach to creating a hospice at home team (1 September, 2011)
- An audit around preferred place of death: one UK hospice experience (1 September, 2011)
- A project to enable tissue donation for research purposes (1 September, 2011)
- What is good end of life care after stroke? (1 September, 2011)
- Advanced liver disease in a homeless population (1 September, 2011)
- A report on physiotherapy services for children and young people (1 September, 2011)
- Advanced care planning for children (1 September, 2011)
- Whose job is it anyway? Meeting the spiritual needs of people at the end of life (1 September, 2011)
- Memories, trajectories and bereavement (1 September, 2011)
- Breathing space: a flexible group programme for people with shortness of breath (1 September, 2011)
- Lean on us – a clinical kitchen (1 September, 2011)
- Lean on us – industrial efficiency in hospice care (1 September, 2011)
- Partnerships with young people in palliative care (1 September, 2011)
- Biometric access drug cabinets for personal controlled drugs in hospices (1 September, 2011)
- Developing e-learning in a hospice setting: benefits, challenges and outcomes (1 September, 2011)
- Triage: An innovation in practice (1 September, 2011)
- Carers support (1 September, 2011)
- Rainbow of ribbons (ROR) (1 September, 2011)
- Implementing triage in a busy hospice team (1 September, 2011)
- Palliative care social work – the leadership art of the chameleon (1 September, 2011)
- Diversifying volunteer roles through the ‘Family Friend’ support service (1 September, 2011)
- ‘Made to fit’: filling critical gaps with a hospice at home service (1 September, 2011)
- ‘Opening the electronic gate’: raising spiritual awareness online (1 September, 2011)
- ‘Opening the gate’ – What's the difference? (1 September, 2011)
- Music to soothe the soul (1 September, 2011)
- Working alone, in the safety zone! (1 September, 2011)
- A toolkit to support ventilated children and young people in children's hospices (1 September, 2011)
- Better together carers programme (1 September, 2011)
- Improving end of life care on the front line (1 September, 2011)
- Co-ordinating care: a clinicians tale (1 September, 2011)
- The responsive needs tool – unlocking communication of end of life care needs (1 September, 2011)
- An innovative model for delivering end of life care education (1 September, 2011)
- Professional user views of a specialist palliative care service (1 September, 2011)
- Developing competencies for end of life care in care homes (1 September, 2011)
- A new model for breaking bad news to people with learning disabilities (1 September, 2011)
- Support for coping with issues of loss in schools (SCILS) (1 September, 2011)
- “LIP” the Living with illness programme (1 September, 2011)
- Demonstrate the quality of your bereavement service (1 September, 2011)
- A redesign of hospice social care services (1 September, 2011)
- Doing different things not doing things differently (1 September, 2011)
- Supporting end of life care delivery: an inclusive approach (1 September, 2011)
- Doing the right thing at the right time (1 September, 2011)
- Therapeutic hand massage: empowering carers to care (1 September, 2011)
- Hospice neighbours (1 September, 2011)
- Beyond talking therapy: diverse bereavement support (1 September, 2011)
- Collaboration online (1 September, 2011)
- Developing in house clinical supervision for all (1 September, 2011)
- Hearing voices: sounds great! (1 September, 2011)
- How to get 50 positive press stories on your hospice a month (1 September, 2011)
- Legal surgery scheme (1 September, 2011)
- Managing a deficit (1 September, 2011)
- Social media – the twilight years of fundraising (1 September, 2011)
- The end of life care strategy: where next? (1 September, 2011)
- Triage (1 September, 2011)
- Developing support for carers in the context of the community (1 September, 2011)
- Establishing a nurse led specialist palliative care satellite clinic (1 September, 2011)
- Debating forum – what do you think? (1 September, 2011)
- Food for thought! (1 September, 2011)
- Improving psychosocial care: the way forward (1 September, 2011)
- Keeping medicines management on the radar! (1 September, 2011)
- Reaching out to care homes: a new specialist practitioner service (1 September, 2011)
- Reaching out to schools: a vocational experience programme for school students (1 September, 2011)
- Developing the assistant practitioner role for palliative and end of life care (1 September, 2011)
- Nursing workforce modelling in UK hospices – recommendations for future planning (1 September, 2011)
- Practice development unit – every person makes a difference (1 September, 2011)
- Day services partnership working (1 September, 2011)
- It's good to talk: an insight into counselling (1 September, 2011)
- Advance care planning documentation adopted county-wide (1 September, 2011)
- Small is beautiful (1 September, 2011)
- Measuring hand size in patients with breast cancer related lymphoedema (BCRL) (1 September, 2011)
- Learning lessons: how listening makes us more local (1 September, 2011)
- Hospice apprentice with the South Asian community (1 September, 2011)
- Innovative pre and post bereavement work with children: unique ways with animals (1 September, 2011)
- Documenting advance care planning in the hospice setting (1 September, 2011)
- Investing in a weekly lottery – does it work? (1 September, 2011)
- Service user evaluation of the benefits of complementary therapy in hospice care (1 September, 2011)
- Providing culturally competent palliative care in Glasgow (1 September, 2011)
- Setting up a community interest company alongside a hospice (1 September, 2011)
- The resilience programme for staff & volunteers (1 September, 2011)
- A model of care in a children's hospice – report on an independent evaluation (1 September, 2011)
- An independent evaluation of a neonatal end of life care pathway (1 September, 2011)
- Talking about dying and death (1 September, 2011)
- Creating a sustainable high quality hospicecare service (1 September, 2011)
- Enterprise initiatives: to boldly go……. (1 September, 2011)
- Why carry a file or pick up a pen? All our records are paperless! (1 September, 2011)
- Breakthrough medication and implications for practice (1 September, 2011)
- e- ELCA, from the beginning (1 September, 2011)
- Study of patients known to a hospice service: hospital versus home deaths (1 September, 2011)
- Developing an end of life care community forum (1 September, 2011)
- Meeting the need of general practitioners for palliative care education (1 September, 2011)
- Reducing treatment dose errors with low molecular weight heparins (1 September, 2011)
- Risk register: an integrated governance approach (1 September, 2011)
- Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer. (1 September, 2011)
- Souls and shadows live (1 September, 2011)
- Demonstrating quality through advanced care planning (1 September, 2011)
Abstract index
- Author index (1 September, 2011)