Dr Natasha Mary Bradley
@natashabradley.bsky.social
Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at UCL. Seeking to improve the lives of people living with serious illness. Interested in palliative care, health inequalities, and research methods. Views my own.
New paper alert! 🌟We explored the first year of an ambitious redesign to hospice services. Successful implementation happens when teams collaborate, adapt to changes, and receive support and feedback. Thrilled to see this published! #palliativecare Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
New paper alert! 🌟We explored the first year of an ambitious redesign to hospice services. Successful implementation happens when teams collaborate, adapt to changes, and receive support and feedback. Thrilled to see this published! #palliativecare Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
🏅Announcing our awarded Research Impact Grants - 4/6 Connection, Compassion, and Action - Achieving impact towards integrated palliative care through knowledge mobilisation
Don't miss this free online conference next Weds! 😍 "Caught between the dream and realities: considering advance care planning (ACP)" Register: tinyurl.com/4zbbpxka Amazing line-up, asking: How is ACP being used? Does the public engage with ACP? What are the challenges in ACP? Where to next?
Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’
Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’
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Don't miss this free online conference next Weds! 😍 "Caught between the dream and realities: considering advance care planning (ACP)" Register: tinyurl.com/4zbbpxka Amazing line-up, asking: How is ACP being used? Does the public engage with ACP? What are the challenges in ACP? Where to next?
Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’
Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’
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Really pleased to share that this realist review on integrated palliative care in oncology has now been published by BMC Medicine. We focused on cancer but there are transferable lessons to non-malignant conditions and comorbidities. Open access article: rdcu.be/elqkN #palliativecare
Integrated palliative care and oncology: a realist synthesis
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If a government wanted to stop us being strangers, it could stop shovelling money at the tech bros & surveillance & start spending it on buses & cycle infrastructure & public spaces, it could regulate pay, hours, working conditions & rents better so people had energy to engage in their community.
A new realist review from @natashabradley.bsky.social, Dr Tracey McConnell, Professor Joanne Reid and colleagues highlights the context, challenges and recommendations for integrating palliative care into oncology services. 👇
Dr Natasha Mary Bradley@natashabradley.bsky.social · last yr.Really pleased to share that this realist review on integrated palliative care in oncology has now been published by BMC Medicine. We focused on cancer but there are transferable lessons to non-malignant conditions and comorbidities. Open access article: rdcu.be/elqkN #palliativecare
Really pleased to share that this realist review on integrated palliative care in oncology has now been published by BMC Medicine. We focused on cancer but there are transferable lessons to non-malignant conditions and comorbidities. Open access article: rdcu.be/elqkN #palliativecare
Integrated palliative care and oncology: a realist synthesis
rdcu.be
It's #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek! If you're in London, come join us @codydock.bsky.social tomorrow for a thought-provoking and entertaining evening. #DyingMatters #TheCultureofDyingMatters Registration link below...
Dr Natasha Mary Bradley@natashabradley.bsky.social · last yr.I am so looking forward to 'Cycles of Life' at @codydock.bsky.social Join us for a special evening in a beautiful venue with brilliant speakers - inc. an artist, chaplain, ecologist, historian, psychologist, and an end-of-life doula 😍 You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cycles-of-...
I am so looking forward to 'Cycles of Life' at @codydock.bsky.social Join us for a special evening in a beautiful venue with brilliant speakers - inc. an artist, chaplain, ecologist, historian, psychologist, and an end-of-life doula 😍 You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cycles-of-...
The introduction of Section 28 marked the peak of homophobic attitudes in the UK. For the years it was law, the belief that homosexuality was wrong diminished and acceptance grew. We lost the battle to halt Section 28 but it armed us well to win the war. Laws can’t crush us. Keep hope alive. 💜 16/16
We have been describing the association between area-based deprivation and place of death for 30 years but we know little about causes and moderators or how to reduce inequalities. Our new paper in SSM Pop Health investigates with some surprising results... 👇👇👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I'm organising a public event to hear from different people on themes related to Mortality, in a beautiful venue in East London. We have some brilliant speakers already and there is time for more volunteers to contribute. Save the date and watch this space for a registration link coming soon!
Important and timely work from @dianateggi.bsky.social and colleagues. Findings highlight the urgency of improving home-based services and providing real alternatives to hospital, if existing policy narratives around choice are to become meaningful. #palliativecare #endoflifecare #academicsky
Diana Teggi@dianateggi.bsky.social · 2y agoReducing hospital deaths is a key #HealthPolicy goal - but it's not happening. Our study shows why: non-cancer patients & their carers lack support to die at home. #Dementia is a key barrier. Including cancer-free adults in #PalliativeCare referral pathways would change this doi.org/10.1080/0895...
"For every patient we look after, there are others that we can’t care for. I really feel for the families. The ones that do get a bed can take a deep breath, it’s such a relief. People say they can go back to being a husband or daughter again rather than a carer.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Hospices are in retreat’: funding crisis squeezing UK palliative care providers
St Catherine’s hospice in West Sussex says it has been forced to leave beds empty despite the demand for end-of-life care
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Plant everything now....Plant even the idea of a wave. It's a good day that starts with inspiration from @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social, but brought by puppets. Hope is a muscle (adrienne taught me this but many poets have said it before and since - so it must be true) #academicsky
Teresa@poeticpuppets.bsky.social · 2y agoGrover is quoting the inimitable @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social today!
Real honour to chair today's @mariecurieuk.bsky.social #MCResearch2025 conference session on poverty at end of life. Sobering new research: - Numbers dying in poverty rose to 110,000 in 2023. - Risk of dying in poverty far higher for working age, but also now rising for pensioners. 1/4
You can also now download and read our report, "'To Know Dying' Identifying research areas in palliative and end of life care for the social sciences and humanities" healthopenresearch.org/documents/7-1 @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social @brionyhudson.bsky.social @marigreenfield.bsky.social
John MacArtney@johnmacartney.bsky.social · 2y agoJoin @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social and myself tomorrow afternoon (4:05pm) to hear about the important role social sciences and humanities have to play in the future of research into dying, palliative and end of life care. The conference is online and free 👇
Wonderful day yesterday and a landmark moment - launching the new set of priorities for palliative care research. Another impressive achievement from the Marie Curie team! 👏😊 @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social @sabinebest.bsky.social @brionyhudson.bsky.social @devirsagar.bsky.social
Benefits of Early Outpatient #PalliativeCare Enhances QOL Increases adaptive coping strategies Reduces symptoms of depression Fosters prognostic awareness Improves communication about EOL care preferences Leads to earlier initiation of #hospice services Decreases caregiver distress #hapc25
@matthewhodson.bsky.social @philipcbaldwin.bsky.social @nagingtonuom.bsky.social @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social This research could reveal and change heteronormativity in end-of-life care. I wonder if you amazing blueskyers could help by sharing the survey link or taking part? (Flattery works, right?)
Polly Maxwell @peamaxy.bsky.social · 2y agoThe LGBTQ+ family survey is open now: lnkd.in/efhq48jF This survey aims to provide an understanding of the different forms of family practiced by LGBTQ+ people, and how these families experience representation and inequity in public services.
It really is hard to believe that he has this much power, or even that he had the time and concentration span to do all this (as well as everything else that's happened this week). 😣 How does that poem go again? #academicsky please read www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Dr Pen@drpen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2y agoThis is actually hard to believe but as employed academics, independent research community or any other interested person, you should read this and/or similar articles. I think its our responsibility to be very informed about what is now happening in USA. #academia #academicchatter #nih […]
"Choice can only be exercised when options exist that enable equitable access to comprehensive care." On the cover, a Comment explores assisted dying, complex systems, and global equity in palliative care. Read this & more ➡️ tinyurl.com/42n97mp4
An audiobook I loved and will return to - stories of the working lives of famously accomplished people and wise advice on how to master your productivity. Sharing as a reminder to myself as much as to recommend to others: Do fewer things. Obsess over quality. Work at a natural pace. #academicsky
⭐️ The 2025 CDAS Conference call for papers is OPEN!! ⭐️ Theme? Death and transition When? 12-13 June 2025 online Full details via the link below www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
Looking forward to this! I am part way through 'Unheard' as an audio book and I would definitely recommend - it's fascinating company for some January tidying. Inspirational work @drrageshri.bsky.social 👏
Patients Association@patients-association.org.uk · 2y agoDon’t miss @drrageshri.bsky.social ’s talk on the importance of listening in medical care. Join us on 23rd January at 7pm to hear about the importance of engaged listening and it's place in the future of healthcare : https://buff.ly/3BBdDSf
For those of you interested in community building: emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-se... "Competition makes sense only when we consider the unit of evolution to be the individual. When the focus shifts to the level of a group, cooperation is a better model, not only for surviving but for thriving"
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.
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“fragmented, unsupported caregiving in a sea of chaos leaves lifelong scars, diminishing carers’ trust in both the health system and government as a whole. “ must read I’ve never read it put so well. #hapc katherinepettusconsulting.wordpress.com/2024/12/21/p...
Palliative care creates small islands of coherence
“When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.” Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning che…
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