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Rachel Clarke (nee Rendall, born 1972) is a British writer and physician, specialising in palliative and end of life care and working in a large NHS hospital. She is the author of Breathtaking (2021), an account of working inside the NHS during the UK's first wave of COVID-19, a work that formed the basis of a TV series of the same name.
Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders (22 June 1918 – 14 July 2005) was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine, and opposing the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia.
The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was a care pathway in the United Kingdom (excluding Wales) covering palliative care options for patients in the final days or hours of life. It was developed to help doctors and nurses provide quality end-of-life care , to transfer quality end-of-life care from the hospice to hospital setting.
Palliative care was the subject of the 2018 Netflix short documentary, End Game by directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman [117] about terminally ill patients in a San Francisco hospital and features the work of palliative care physician, BJ Miller. The film's executive producers were Steven Ungerleider, David C. Ulich and Shoshana R ...
Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 2. “I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story.
Living with ageing and dying: palliative and end of life care for older people. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-199-56993-9. Payne, Sheila; Seymour, Jane; Ingleton, Christine, eds. (2008). Palliative care nursing: principles and evidence for practice (2nd ed.). Open University Press. ISBN 9780335236466.
Palliative care got its start as hospice care delivered largely by caregivers at religious institutions. The first formal hospice was founded in 1948 by the British physician Dame Cicely Saunders in order to care for patients with terminal illnesses. [2] She defined key physical, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of distress in her work.
Mary Jean Baines, OBE née Silver (29 October 1932 – 21 August 2020) was a British palliative care physician. Alongside her colleague Dame Cicely Saunders, she has been called one of the founders of the palliative care movement. [1]