Links for professionals
Resources
CLiP (Current Learning in Palliative Care)
Written by staff from St. Oswald's Hospice, these are nearly sixty 15 minute workshops on many aspects of palliative care. They are arranged into Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced Levels and can be used online, or downloaded for use by tutors, cares and learners.
Hospice information
Information site for all palliative care services in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.
Learning about Intellectual Disabilities Health
Site looking at the palliative care aspects of people with life-limiting illness who also have an intellectual disability.
Palliative and Supportive Care
The aim is to try and gather together information of interest in palliative care.
Palliative Care Matters
Website for health care palliative care professionals.
Palliative Care Handbook
A complete, online textbook on palliative care
Palliative Drugs
An essential resource for all health professionals needing current and reliable information on palliative care drugs.
SPACEpods (Supportive and Palliative Care Education podcasts)
These are a unique initiative in internet-based education from the Academic Unit of Supportive Care at the University of Sheffield, in collaboration with the Trent Palliative Care Centre. Using the now established technology of downloadable audio and video files - podcasts - we are able to offer colleagues and the wider public, access to the very latest research and clinical developments in this clinical field.
Organisations
ACT (Association for Children’s Palliative Care)
A UK-registered charity which is striving to achieve the best quality of life and care for all children and young people with life-threatening or life-limiting conditions and their families.
The Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland (APM)
An association of doctors who work in hospices and specialist palliative care units in hospitals. Formed in 1986, it now has approximately 800 members from all over the UK and Ireland, and includes doctors based overseas.
Help the Hospices
The national charity for the hospice movement.
Hospice information
A joint venture between St. Christopher's Hospice and Help the Hospices. It brings together the experience and established reputation for high quality of the Hospice Information Service at St. Christopher's and the national remit and innovative information developments of Help the Hospices. Together, we want to provide a world-class information service for health professionals and members of the public, on UK and international hospice and palliative care.
British Lymphology Society (BLS)
BLS members consist of health care professionals, as well as others who are directly involved in the management of lymphoedema. It aims to promote awareness about lymphoedema to the public and health care professionals. The BLS has produced guidelines, and is in the process of writing evidence-based standards to underpin treatment for the long term management of lymphoedema.
Glasgow University
Here at St Oswald's we are specialists in Lymphoedema Management. We work closely alongside our colleagues at Glasgow University. Please visit their website for further details.
Journals
Palliative Medicine
The first specialist journal in palliative care, now in its 19th year
Books
A GUIDE TO SYMPTOM RELIEF IN PALLIATIVE CARE: Fifth Edition
Claud Regnard and Jo Hockley, Respectively Consultant in Palliative Medicine, St Oswald's Hospital, Newcastle; Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care, St Columba's, Edinburgh
HELPING THE PATIENT WITH ADVANCED DISEASE: a workbook
Claud Regnard, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, St Oswald's Hospital, Newcastle
SUPPORTIVE AND PALLIATIVE CARE IN CANCER: an introduction
Claud Regnard and Margaret Kindlen, Respectively Consultant in Palliative Medicine; and Head of Education, both at St Oswald's Hospice, Newcastle upon Tyne