Palliative Medicine Teaching

03/04/2026

Patients who do not speak the same language as their health care clinicians experience significant inequities when they encounter the health care system.

Compared with those who speak the dominant language, hospitalized patients who prefer another language are at increased risk of a range of poor outcomes, including adverse events that result in physical harm.

💡This JAMA Internal Medicine Clinical Insights article discusses improving care quality for hospitalized patients who have a nondominant language preference.

https://ja.ma/412KkkH

02/04/2026

"Language about rare disease is a powerful—but underused—lever for change."

In a new Comment, authors call for a profound shift in how health-care providers use language within the rare disease ecosystem.

Find out more in our latest issue ▶️ http://spkl.io/6187AFEaW

02/04/2026

For most of human history, dying was something people witnessed, understood, and supported at home. Today, many of us reach the end of life without ever havi...

30/03/2026

30/03/2026

📑 The Case for Community-Based Palliative Care
🔗 https://www.capc.org/documents/867/

🔹 Aims to help programs expand in all settings outside of hospitals.
🔹 Includes key data on the value of community-based care, program profiles and a case example.

30/03/2026

Delve into key aspects of practice, emphasising the enhancement of patient outcomes through the application of a palliative approach.

29/03/2026

At the last meeting of the Scottish Parliament Palliative Care Cross Party Group, ten experts highlighted key actions for the next Scottish Parliament. You can read their key asks here - https://www.palliativecarescotland.org.uk/news/news/key-asks-for-the-next-scottish-government/

29/03/2026

28/03/2026

Great article and infographic to circulate!!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2514664526000135

16/03/2026

The Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN) recently had the honour of participating in the 114th Membership Meeting and Annual Conference of the Taiwan Academy of Hospice Palliative Medicine […]

16/03/2026

We're thinking of mums everywhere today - from the mums who care for us, to the mums we've lost. 💛

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16/03/2026