Announcements
Former IAHPC Board member, Dr. Anne Merriman, has recently published a new book Audacity to Love.
‘In palliative care we are on the coalface of death …’
Audacity to Love
The Story of Hospice Africa
hope and peace for the dying
by
Dr Anne Merriman
Founder and Director of Policy
and International Programmes,
Hospice Africa
‘Every pain that is relieved and every symptom
that is improved is a little resurrection for our patient’
– Anne Merriman
AIMS OF THE BOOK
- To provide a uniquely authoritative survey and history of palliative care in Africa
- To chart the story of the growth and development of Hospice Africa and Hospice Africa Uganda from the personal point of view of its Founder
- To offer a personal memoir of Merriman’s career in working with the sick and terminally ill
- To explore the spiritual and ethical principles behind hospice and palliative care
- To serve as a practical guide for those intending to work in the area of hospice and palliative care.
- To preserve the philosophy of dedicated volunteerism, encouraging those with more, to give to those with less.
ISBN: 978-0-9534880-9-4
RRP: £11.99 (GBP) / €13.99 / $16.99 (USD)
ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALES OF THIS BOOK WILL GO DIRECTLY TO HOSPICE AFRICA TO HELP
At the present time this book may be ordered at Read Ireland Bookstore
with other online opportunities to come. www.readireland.ie .
IV Congresso Internacional de Cuidados Paliativos (IV International Paliative Care Congress) - Brazil
IV Congresso Internacional de Cuidados Paliativos (IV International Paliative Care Congress). This is the most important Brazilian congress in Palliative Care. It will take place in the city of São Paulo, from 6 to 9 October 2010. The main theme is "Education and Palliative Care". Palliative Care is an important subject nowadays in our country. In the beginnig of 2010, Conselho Federal de Medicina (Medicine Federal Council) approved a new Mecical Ethics Code and, for the first time in our country, Palliative Care bacame an obligation for doctors an a right for the patients. It is a crucial and challenging moment in Brazil and the IV Congress will mirror and discuss these changes. The website is www.paliativo.org.br/congresso .
If you need more information, please let me know.
Regards,
Carla Bartz - ANCP PR,
[email protected]
Morphine Remains Scarce for Pain Sufferers Worldwide – from Time Magazine
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1993375,00.html
From the National Health Service (UK) Evidence - supportive and palliative care
Dear all ,
Each month there is a wide range of new items added to the NHS Evidence specialist collection on supportive and palliative care. From last month’s list of entries, Dr Jason Boland has selected those which may be of particular interest (see below). Jason is a clinical lecturer at the University of Sheffield, where he is currently undertaking a PhD. He can be contacted via: [email protected]
Users who cannot easily access the web links below from their email software should access the full list via the link near the top of the home page: http://www.library.nhs.uk/palliative/ or See the full lists of new records added each month
Best wishes,
Richard Stevens, Project Manager, NHS Evidence - supportive and palliative care
NHS Evidence - supportive and palliative care
June 2010 Bulletin
See the complete list of new items
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NEED )
Some of the items added to the 'Evidence in the News' RSS feed last month
- National end of life care intelligence network launched
- New guidance on end of life care launched
- Terminally ill will have right to refuse resuscitation bids
- World's first Institute of Palliative Care
- GP hastened death of 18 patients - GMC hears
** See the complete list of new items
- www.shef.ac.uk/medicine/staff/rstevens.html
- www.library.nhs.uk/palliative/
- www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/supportive-and-palliative-care-evidence.html
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