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13.01.2022 Please share far and wide: Calling all researchers and practitioners using the PHPC approach. Have you presented about your work, written a report, or written u...p an evaluation about your public health palliative care / health promoting palliative care project? The Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care are searching for grey literature (ie not published in academic journals). Here are the details: Mapping the progress and impacts of public health approaches to palliative care: a scoping review A group from the University of Edinburgh, Strathclyde University, La Trobe University, Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care and St Columba’s Hospice Edinburgh, are undertaking a scoping review relating to public health palliative care. The scoping review aims to: Map the wide variety of activities and programmes that could be classified as ‘public health palliative care’ Explore the impact of these activities where impact has been measure More information about the review is available in the link. Having undertaken a search of formally published literature, a grey literature search is now underway. This will include write-ups/reports/evaluations of work that could be considered public health or health promoting palliative care - ie work aiming to prevent social difficulties around death, dying and bereavement, that involve working with communities or wider society. If you've been involved in writing up relevant work, even if it has not been formally published, we'd be interested to see it for potential inclusion in the review. Please email Rebecca by 9 February 2018. Many thanks!

12.01.2022 Hi everyone, the GroundSwell Team are at the 5th International Public Health Palliative Care Conference in Canada which kicks off today! If you'd like to follow the conversations, you can follow along on #PHPC17

12.01.2022 Source: Compassionate Communities Case studies from Britain and Europe Edited by Klaus Wegleitner, Katharina Heimerl and Allan Kellehear 2016.

09.01.2022 Source: Compassionate Communities Case studies from Britain and Europe Edited by Klaus Wegleitner, Katharina Heimerl and Allan Kellehear 2016.

08.01.2022 Prof Allan Kellehear Via Public Health Palliative Care International

02.01.2022 The idea that how people die can and should be seen as a public health issue is one that might seem strange to many people. After all, public health initiatives... are traditionally a means to keep people healthy for longer and to prevent them getting ill. Of course, we all die, and because most of us are living longer we are highly likely to die with one or more life-limiting conditions. This isn’t a public health failure it’s an inevitability in our ageing society and many people believe that public health still has an active role to play in supporting people to die well. This is the argument that Allan Kellehear, professor of end of life care at University of Bradford, has made throughout his career and in particular his concept of compassionate communities. In his view, local government has a very important role to play in helping communities to better support not just people who are dying, but also their carers and families. This has the potential to have a huge impact not just in the lives of individuals but also in the way a community uses health services, particularly hospital care. A very common experience of people at the end of life is a ‘yo-yo’ of emergency hospital admissions, often without clinical need, that can, in some cases, lead to prolonged stays and death in hospital... See more