Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈

@drneilpender.bsky.social

Medical Director of Trinity Hospice and Brian House Children’s Hospice, Blackpool, UK. Consultant in Palliative Medicine. #HAPC #HPM

Well said: “the majority of the investment announced today does not cover day-to-day running costs, such as staffing and other essential outgoings needed to give round the clock care” &”End-of-life care involves numerous parts of the health and care sectors in all four UK nations working together”

The BMA@bma.org.uk · 2y ago

Investment in the whole system is needed for quality end-of-life care. Read our press response to today's hospice funding announcement: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...

BMA press release.

Is capital spending really what the hospice sector needs? Or is it fairer, equitable, transparent and recurrent funding from NHS Integrated Care Boards? Hospice expenditure is mostly people, not things.

Laura Phillips@lauraphillips.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hugh Pym BBC Health Editor: “Govt has announced £126 million over 2 years for #hospices in England - capital spending for buildings and kit etc - inc £26 million for children’s hospice #grant next year”.

📣Published TODAY 📖 It means so much to me to share our paper on #PalliativeCare & #EoLC for people with pleural #Mesothelioma 🫁 in @palliativemedj.bsky.social Thank you to @mesouk.bsky.social for funding this research Please share 🔁 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Donna Wakefield@donnawakefield.bsky.social · 2y ago

This weekend is the 10 year anniversary of when the floor fell out of my life when my beloved grandpa died of #Mesothelioma on a trolly in A&E 💔 I want better #PalliativeCare for patients with meso 🫁 Very proud to receive the proofs for our paper, #research which has been a labour of pure love❤️

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