West Midlands Palliative Care – Guidance, Research, Education and Events

Palliative
Care Guidance

Specialist
Guidelines

Research Groups & Projects

Education
& Events

Welcome

To the West Midlands Palliative Care Website

Online Guide

View our Palliative Care Guidelines online.

Research Projects

Access to various research groups.

Education & Events

Links to online education providers.

Audit and Research Projects

The impact on professional healthcare interpreters of interpreting palliative care conversations for adult patients: a rapid review

The UK hosts an increasingly ethnically and linguistically diverse population, as identified on the most…

An evaluation of the use of subcutaneous furosemide in end stage heart failure in the West

Reynolds, A., Sanyal, N., Gray, A.

Percutaneous liver biopsy in end of life metastatic cancer

The aim of this study is to firstly establish mortality data following liver biopsy in the diagnosis of…

Is primary thromboprophylaxis of palliative care cancer in-patients compliant with NICE Clinical Guidance 89 - a clinical audit

The West Midlands were the largest contributing group to a national audit led by Professor Simon Noble…

The impact and implications of Covid-19

On the relational, social, and healthcare experiences of hospice care.

Education Events

'Going off script' - a one day symposium highlighting Medical Improv and its uses

Looking at communication and team work

Birmingham Improv

The 20th Annual Worcestershire Palliative Care Conference

The Myth of Equality...Challenges for Palliative Care Provision

University of Worcester, St Richards Hospice, KEMP Hospice, Primrose Hospice, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust