Joe Sawyer

elegant little RCT for thirst in #palliativecare #pallmed

ice chips + mint > ice chips for thirst!

of course you can't blind this but who cares, people felt better!

www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S088...

Cover of The Lancet's Jan 11, 2025 issue. Quote on cover reads: "Norms from high-income countries about what constitutes a good death have been exported and influence practice globally, often at odds with local death and dying systems."

"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

Facing death differently: revolutionising our approach to death and grief Despite growing public interest in death, support for end-of-life care and bereavement remains inadequate. We urgently need a community centred, public health approach to the social processes of dying...

There've been some thoughtful, engaged responses to my @bmj.com piece arguing for a community-centred, public health approach to dying and grieving - including an exchange with Richard Smith, see: www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Screenshot of Naga Munchetty on BBC 5 Live Breakfast from BBC Sounds. Naga has a yellow sweater on. Interview started at 07.24am.

It was a pleasure to be interviewed by BBC’s Naga Munchetty on her 5 Live Breakfast show this morning: thank you Naga for featuring @stelizabethhospice.bsky.social and our Christmas Day Dip at #Felixstowe seafront today to raise funds for the hospice @hospiceuk.bsky.social @charliejking.bsky.social

Adam Curtis Title Card: We Too Are Trapped In A System. Text over a background of a large office building

THREAD

This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact

An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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@thelancet.bsky.social
Comment out today:

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Social and structural determinants of dying well and the complex systems they exist in

#palliativecare #socialdeterminantsofhealth

Invitation: If you are a UK-based researcher, or clinician conducting palliative care research, please complete our brief survey to help funders understand what is needed to sustain and grow palliative care research in the UK. Now open until 12.1.25:

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/...

The Janus Face of Person‐Centred Care Click on the article title to read more.

First bluesky post! My new editorial with Catherine Evans and @proflizsampson.bsky.social calls out the misuse of 'person-centred care' in policy and outcome measurement as vague and oversimplified, especially for those with dementia. Full article on request!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying, and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, bas...

Still need a copy of Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement? Routledge is currently offering 25% off for the next few days www.routledge.com/Critical-App...

Superb

Man with brown jumper and orange lanyard in front of conference poster on Compassionate Communities

“From Plymouth to Ipswich to Preston”: thanks to my colleague Hugh McElhinney from @stelizabethhospice.bsky.social for sharing our public health palliative care approach in partnership with St Luke’s and St Catherine’s hospices at @hospiceuk.bsky.social #HospiceUKConf @compassionatecomm.bsky.social

This paper re palliation in advanced heart failure caught my eye. In particular, table 6 summarises the potential symptom benefits both of continuing and of stopping (4th column) each class of heart failure medicine

doi.org/10.1177/1049...

Happy memories! Might catch you before the end and if not hopefully at the next PHPCI

Man with glasses and beard in blue shirt and orange lanyard in front of conference poster on improving access and equity to end of life care: National Lottery protocol for Suffolk

If you are at @hospiceuk.bsky.social #HospiceUKConf, do see @joe-sawyer.bsky.social Dr Joe of @stelizabethhospice.bsky.social at poster 115 re: our public health approach to palliative care. We’re developing a protocol for Suffolk, funded by the National Lottery. @compassionatecomm.bsky.social