What is Palliative Medicine?
Training and assessment in Palliative Medicine
Guidelines, national initiatives and strategies relevant to palliative care
- Department of Health
- National End of Life Care Strategy
- Better care: Better lives 2008
- Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
- Control of pain in adults with cancer 2008
- Management of chronic heart failure 2007
- Management of patients with dementia 2006
- Prevention and management of patients with VTE 2010
- Management of chronic venous leg ulcers 2010
- European Society of Medical Oncologists (ESMO)
- National end of life care programme
- Route to success documents
- World Health Organisation
- Supportive and Palliative Care: the manual
- Pressure ulcer management 2005
- Metastatic spinal cord compression
- Nutriotional support in adults 2006
- Neuropathic pain pharmacological management March 2010
- Motor Neurone Disease: Non-invasive ventilation July 2010
- Anxiety Jan 2011
- Depression in chronic physical ill health Oct 2009
- Delerium July 2010
- Dementia Nov 2006
- Epilepsy Oct 2004
- Parkinson's June 2006
- Heart failure Aug 2010
- COPD June 2010
- Pleurex for malignant ascites
Research & Education
- European Palliative Care Research Collaborative
- University of Bristol
- University of Cardiff
- Hand book in palliative medicine
- Palliativedrugs
- NHS Evidence
- e-Learning for Health