Selected videos and websites of interest from our team and others. Videos Palliative care from diagnosis to death - 4 minute video Professor Scott Murray presents a rationale for early palliative care based on the contrasting multidimensional trajectories of well-being that people have in their last years of life. Facebook as posted by BMJ YouTube Video Palliative care in Africa - 4 minute video Professor Scott Murray discusses the challenges of providing end of life care in Africa. YouTube Video 1 minute videos Professor Scott Murray and others explain the focus of their research in 1 minutes videos. 'Research in a nutshell' site with 1 minute videos from the Centre for Population Health Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. When I die: lessons from the death zone YouTube video 20 takes on death and dying 20 comments from people throughout Scotland in 2011 - a hospice activist talks about one of the "life before death" short videos YouTube video Life before death: the D word YouTube video EAPC Award 2013 Derek Doyle receives the EAPC award 2013 - and discusses palliative care in the past, present and future YouTube video "A Good Death" A moving account of the experiences of Martin, a patient with end-stage emphysema during the final months of his life. It embraces the struggle which the patient and his family faced, and gives piognant context to the issues of palliative treatments for chronic respiratory failure, advanced care planning, and hospice care. It explores the fears and frustrations of an individual and his family, as they face an imminent death, and deals with some of the medical challenges which modern health care services face in making death "good" rather than "bad". Video in English vimeo.com/39258619 Video with Spanish subtitles vimeo.com/84823969 Useful websites International Primary Palliative Care Network Sign up to join the network - IPPCN website Dying Matters English campaign to promote the discussion of death and dying in the community - Dying Matters website Living and dying well Scottish campaign to promote the discussion of death and dying in the community - Scottish Government Living and Dying Well website Together for Short Lives Explore issues around children's palliative care through the Together for Short Lives website WHPCO Sign up to receive the online newsletter from World Hospice and Palliative Care Online by emailing whpco@hospiceinformation.info eHospice New in October 2012, ehospice is a free website and app that brings you real time international news and intelligence on hospice, palliative and end of life care - delivered by regional and national hospice and palliative care organisations worldwide. See ehospice.com World Palliative Care Alliance Look at the resources on the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance website. International Observatory on End of Life Care Explore the global development section of the International Observatory on End of Life Care website; a wealth of information. ICPCN Explore the International Children's Palliative Care Network and consider becoming a member. Volunteer Organisations Check out opportunities with volunteer organisations such as Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) and Healthserve (or via the Christian Medical Fellowship website) Asia Pacific Hospice Association Explore the Asia Pacific Hospice Association website. Hoping, Coping and Talking About Planning Ahead Just in Case by Kirsty Boyd Blog post on GMC This article was published on 2024-09-24
