End of Life Care with Dan, Georgina, Diane and Caroline

This episode focuses on a vital part of pre-hospital care; that
of end of life care. Dan Davis explores this area with Caroline
Philips, Diane Laverty, Georgina Murphy Jones. As all three
guests work in various capacities for Macmillan they explore both
the similarities and variations of palliative and EoLC and the
subtle changes in approach to these patients. They look at the
mindset change of approach to these patents in de-emphasising
resuscitation and focusing on rapport building, supporting
documented wishes and multi-agency engagement to facilitate the
best care in the last period of a patient's life.


Diane Laverty works as a Macmillan Nurse Consultant and is
passionate about specialist palliative care and EoLC patients
having a voice and receiving high quality care across all domains
of practice. 

Caroline Philips and Georgina Murphy Jones work as paramedic
clinical tutors and Macmillan specialist clinicians helping embed
both EoLC training and practice across London and to fellow
colleagues.



They examine the difficulty of not having prior rapport with
these patients & families and some of the variations we would
expect to see when looking at the physiology and clinical
findings. This episode is especially important in the current
climate and Dan brings this into focus talking about his own
experiences with EoLC with his own father. 


Please enjoy this episode which discusses this relevant and
important narrative within pre-hospital care.