A multidisciplinary approach to enhancing palliative care

Enhanced Palliative Care: A Guide for Paramedics, Nurses and Doctors was edited by Neil Pryde and was published in 2021 by Class Professional Publishing. This book has almost 100 collaborators from nursing, medicine, paramedicine, social work, pastoral care and specialist educators.

It was designed as a training manual to support clinicians providing palliative care to patients at or near the end of their life. According to the World Health Organization (2020):

‘Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients (adults and children) and their families who are facing problems associated with a life-threatening illness. It prevents and relieves suffering through the early identification, correct assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, whether physical, psychosocial or spiritual’.

This allows for a multidisciplinary approach to supporting patients. This book helps address the essential overlapping care models and create a unified approach to caring for patients. With its foundations in the Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines, this book is cover-to-cover evidence-based teaching, backed by one of the largest cancer charities in the UK, Macmillan Cancer Support.