Palliative Care ECHO Update HospiceUK & Association of Palliative Medicine

Four Palliative Doctors from across the world discuss their use of ECHO to support global palliative care in a panel at the recent MetaECHO conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Professor Christopher Piromalli, works with indigenous communities in New Mexico and Alaska, Professor Rajgopal the Father of Indian Palliative Care and founder of Pallium India, Dr. Megan Doherty who works across Asia with Two worlds from Canada in paediatric palliative care and Professor Max Watson, Director of Project

This Month Matt is looking at protocols and guidelines in palliative care and their merits and demerits, Max is highlighting the developments in the world wide ECHO movement, particularly in Palliative Care. Kate is focussing on a paper looking at the impacts of patients, carers and staff of seven day working and Clare Rayment from Bradford is talking about the REACT project in A&E in Bradford.

This month's podcast focuses on frailty. We will be thinking about the increasing numbers of frail patients, working in an increasingly frail NHS and coming to terms with our own biases and frailties. Matt, Max and Kate are joined by Anita Hayes and Catriona Sullivan talking about the Hospice UK's extending frailty care programme and by Sabrina Bajwah from King's College highlighting her research into specialist palliative care's response to ethnic minority groups and a new video