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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.
Balfour M. Mount, OC OQ (born 14 April 1939) is a Canadian physician, surgeon, and academic. He is considered the father of palliative care in North America. [1]Born in Ottawa, Ontario, [2] he received his medical degree from Queen's University in 1963 and studied surgery and urology at McGill University. [3]
He sees patients and caregivers through his online palliative care service, Mettle Health. [ 2 ] In film, Miller is the subject of Netflix's Academy Award-nominated short documentary, End Game [ 3 ] by veteran directors Rob Epstein , Jeffrey Friedman and executive produced by physician and film producer, Shoshana R. Ungerleider . [ 4 ]
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
In 2023 he co-founded with Dr. Rachel Clarke the charity Hospice Ukraine, which aims to help palliative care doctors and nurses in Ukraine. He has been working with medical colleagues in Ukraine since 1992, and has continued to visit since the Russian invasion in February 2022 .