As of 7 April 2020, there were more than 1 270 000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 worldwide and over 68 000 confirmed fatalities (WHO, 2020b). At the same time, in the UK, there was a cumulative total of...
A review of contemporary literature on cluster headaches has been conducted to inform this article, specifically keeping in mind that any development of practice needs be carefully balanced with...
This guideline, which in part replaces content and the format of the recently disfavoured Liverpool Care Pathway, aims to improve EoLC for people in their last days of life, where paramedics are...
‘You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life’ .
Achieving a “good death for all” is a prominent social and political priority across the western world (Ellershaw et al, 2010); however despite this prominence the concepts of such a death remain...
‘Medical education, evidence-based care, accountability and professionalism are all factors catalysing the modernisation and professionalisation of modern British paramedicine’.
‘…ambulance services, along with public bodies, universities and their funders, all need to consider the need for future research into the concept of ‘death anxiety’’.
‘…for the majority of practitioners, death is viewed primarily as a defeat in the face of an uncontrollable force of nature…’.
The term ‘patient’ is one that has traditionally refected a biomedical provision of care that focused on an unequal relationship with an active practitioner and a passive patient; perhaps best...
Department of Health (DH) (2005) and Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (2011) statistics state that the majority of a paramedic’s workload consists of psychosocial care; however this is...
