Dr Natasha Wiggins

How interesting. I wonder if we can link this to our epaccs...

YouTube video by End Well #1 Thing Clinicians Can Do for Palliative Care | End Well

✨Really proud of this talk.
Getting invited to speak at End Well this year was one of the highlights of my professional career so far.
✨I was honored to share my message about how we can better support and grow the field of palliative care.

🙏🏼I hope you’ll listen and share.

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Episode 2 of #BBC Inside Health programme, 3-parter with @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social and
@katherinesleeman.bsky.social

SO impressive given Conal was also last man standing the night before!

“I even got people dancing!” Amanda’s blog about speaking at last week’s conference @pccongress.bsky.social #pcc2025

Beyond excited that @drjrubenstein.bsky.social has travelled to the #pcc2025 and enjoyed our conversation

Dr rachel clarke and dr natasha wiggins sitting on stage

Such a treat to see @drnwiggins.bsky.social interview @doctoroxford.com about her work and fabulous writing at @pccongress.bsky.social

Are our ‘lost boys’ really being failed? While sexist attitudes do harm outcomes, the ‘reverse gender gap’ is being weaponised against women

Dear @theguardian.com Why have you culled 33 signatories from our letter in today's Observer? Mainly medics, responding to last week's full signatory letter on #AssistedDying? www.theguardian.com/theobserver/...

@victoriapeckham.bsky.social

Older people make up the majority of those dying each year. @gerisoc.bsky.social concerned about the lack of representation from older people’s healthcare specialists and older people themselves on the witness list for the Assisted Dying Bill - have a look at our website for updates

Brilliant piece reflecting on the role of palliative care and societal coersion by Janice Turner in the Times today #assisteddying

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Early Bird Closing 24 January at 5pm
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The final episode of my Radio 4 series The Body Politic - on assisted dying - is at 11am this morning, and on BBC Sounds after. We step back to look at the case for assisted dying- and why there’s such strong opposition.

useful thread on the assisted dying hearings today

This is sometimes true for cancer diagnoses which are easier to prognosticate and even then we are often wildly wrong (see Esther Rantzen and research by Nicola White). Almost impossible for non malignant diagnoses.

"Data from the DWP reveals that 1 in 5 people given 6 months to live went on to live over 3 years.." Can we accept a reality where these people would miss 3 years with loved ones due to our inherent poor ability to prognosticate? #assisteddying

a period of 11 months contains the releases of all these films:

Dog Man
Wolf Man
Better Man
Monkey Man
Different Man
Hit Man
Working Man

Why Britain's doctors are in revolt To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients...

Why Britain’s doctors are in revolt

To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients at risk. A must read from @doctoroxford.bsky.social

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

With the shocking revelation the Health Secretary is using taxpayers money to pay the GMC’s legal costs, @anaesunited.bsky.social need our help more than ever to protect patient safety. You can support them here👇

www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-mi...

I really enjoyed speaking with the kind and thoughtful @markmardell.bsky.social who is doing a sterling job of raising the uncomfortable questions on a daily basis. @apmposts.bsky.social @katherinesleeman.bsky.social @doctoroxford.bsky.social

We have a new consultant post! Want to look forward to coming to work? Come work with the best team in town*; drop me an email to see how this could work for you www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Wilts...
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We need to talk about dying The assisted dying debate has been filled with horror stories of miserable ends. But does this reflect the reality of ordinary death?

Are you afraid of what might be waiting for you at the end of your life, or the life of people you love? Read this.
This is my daily reality as a palliative consultant. Far from the terrifying rhetoric of last week.
Read this.
And tell the people you love.
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

The stories of the ordinary dying doesn't win votes but is my day to day reality and it is important those coming to the end of their life know that it is likely to be theirs too. #ordinarydying

Present Indicative nailed it

Good palliative care can alleviate the pain of dying – this bill means Labour must fund it | Rachel Clarke Making dying easier is not the solution when NHS, social and palliative care are simply not there for patients

"It’s over to you, Streeting& Keir Starmer. What will you do now about those anguished, frail, pain-racked patients who sit and quake in death’s proximity as they are failed by the NHS, social care and society at large?" @doctoroxford.bsky.social not holding back www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Palliative Care Doctor, Dr Rachel Clarke,

"There are thousands of people suffering unnecessary pain"

"We may be in a peculiar position where we have a state funded dying service but we don't have a state funded palliative care service"

Palliative Care Doctor, Dr Rachel Clarke,

"If we had robust palliative care, then many many fewer people might feel as though this is their only option"

"Wes Streeting has said patients will be coerced to take their life due to a lack of care"

"Wes Streeting,what are you now going to do about it"

I just find it astounding we are genuinely considering g
Having state funded deaths before we have state funded palliative care.

@cloudylemonade.bsky.social HOLLY!!! HI!!! 👋🏼🤗

Isn't it the worst when they are sick? Although there is something bittersweet about the extra snuggles.