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Terminally-ill patients often denied chance to die at home

Many terminally-ill patients cannot die at home because of a lack of services and training in palliative care, say researchers from the University of Warwick. Fewer and fewer people are dying at home and the most recent national statistics show only 22 per cent of cancer deaths occur there.

Jeremy Dale, Professor of Primary Care at Warwick Medical School, and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer Daniel Munday are co-authors of a discussion paper, which features in the May issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. The article says the home death rate has continued to fall despite the rise in community palliative care services over the last 20 years in the UK. The authors highlighted a recent UK government White Paper, Building on the Best: Choice Responsiveness and Equity in the NHS, which proposed that all adult patients nearing the end of their lives should have the same access to high quality palliative care so they can choose to die at home.

However, Professor Dale explained for a choice to be meaningful, it had to involve at least two high-quality options. He said: “The healthcare professional may feel it particularly difficult to discuss preferred place of death with a patient when providing adequate community services or securing admission to a hospice is not possible. Preferred place of death may be a hollow concept and promise of choice a cruel sham if services are not available because of a lack of funding or other resources.

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“Whilst simplistic rhetoric promising patients a planned death is seductive, the reality may be that the complex, uncontrollable nature of the dying process exposes real choice as being fool’s gold.”

Patients and families need to be empowered and there should be better training for health professionals working in palliative care. The authors are calling for more research funding to address the problems.

 Dr Dan Munday added: “Each individual patient’s expectations of the dying process and the way this shapes their wishes is unique. Helping patients to identify and articulate their preferences, and how these evolve in response to the patient’s changing condition, requires well-developed communication skills, including considerable sensitivity to differences in values.”ENDS

The report, Choice and Place of Death: Individual Preferences, Uncertainty and the Availability of Care, appears in JR Soc Med 2007: 100. 211-215

 Dr Munday can be contacted through Peter Dunn, Press and Media Relations Manager, University of Warwick 02476 523708, 07767 655860.
 

Fighting fat in Warwick’s first Mini Medical School

People can experience a few hours of life as a trainee doctor without the long shifts and lack of sleep this summer at the University of Warwick. No qualifications are required for entry into a new community medical education programme being run by Warwick Medical School.  

The School, based at Gibbet Hill Road, is launching a Mini Medical School to share the experience, education, and research normally reserved for graduates on the four-year MBChB course. People of all ages and backgrounds can sign up for the first classes being held on Saturday 30 June. The focus of this session will be obesity and participants will learn from some of the country’s leading medical clinicians and researchers how the human body is affected by the condition. More than 30,000 deaths a year are caused by obesity in England alone. Is it down to our genes or is our lifestyle to blame for this pandemic? Academics will discuss the causes of obesity and how cutting edge research taking place at Warwick Medical School is playing a part in the global fight against the condition. 

In addition to lectures there will be an opportunity for participants to assess their own body fat percentage using a Body Composition Analyser. Practical workshops, led by our medical students, will also teach how to check blood pressure, blood sugar, and body mass index.  

The idea of a Mini Medical School was pioneered in America and more than 80 universities have been successfully running the programmes there for many years. Stanford and Yale universities are just two American institutions who offer the public education programme. 

Warwick Medical School, established in 2000, is part of the University of Warwick – one of the country’s leading universities for research, innovation and teaching. The School is already the largest graduate-entry medical school in the UK. It also has an ambitious research programme and more Mini Medical School sessions are already being planned for later this year. Future topics will highlight groundbreaking research in the fields of reproduction, diabetes and cancer.

Professor Yvonne Carter, Dean of Warwick Medical School said: “There is so much exciting research taking place at Warwick Medical School and we want to make sure people in the community feel involved in what we are doing.

“Obesity is such a hot topic at the moment and it will be a great opportunity to find out how our work at Warwick impacts on the national and international picture.”

Anyone who attends Mini Medical School will receive a certificate of attendance. The programme is being offered as part of the University of Warwick’s Open Studies programmes. The cost is £30 for the day.

Visit www.warwick.ac.uk/cll/OpenStudies

For further information please contact:

Kelly Parkes, Communications Officer, 0247 615 0483, 07824 540863
mailto:k.e.parkes@warwick.ac.uk
Warwick Medical School

University of Warwick

 

 
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