Kate Binnie

An interview with Angus Thompson, the designer of The Asthma and Lung UK Breathing Space Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026

Lovely article in The English Garden with designer Angus Thompson about our Breathing Space Garden at Chelsea Flower show www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/news-and-eve...
@asthmaandlung.org.uk @hyms.ac.uk @katebinnie.bsky.social @projectgivingback.bsky.social

An interview with Angus Thompson, the designer of The Asthma and Lung UK Breathing Space Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026

Delighted that our "Breathing Space" garden for Asthma +Lung UK promoting breath health & well-being is getting good press coverage ahead of RHS Chelsea! In particular highlighting research from our breathlessness team @WolfsonPallCare.bsky.social

www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/news-and-eve...

Angus Thompson Creates a Garden to Breathe in at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 The Asthma + Lung UK Breathing Space Garden is inspired by the voices of people living with lung conditions and invites visitors to pause, breathe, and reconnect with themselves, each other and nature...

Looking forward to being part of Chelsea Flower Show this year with the Breathing Space garden funded by @projectgivingback.bsky.social -read about it here www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/media/press-...
@hyms.ac.uk @katebinnie.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk

You can read more about the Asthma+Lung UK Breathing Space garden for RHS Chelsea here www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/media/press-... 🌸🫁🌷

Our researchers are very proud to be part of the team who developed the Breathing Space Garden which will be at Chelsea 2026! @asthmaandlung.org.uk @katebinnie.bsky.social @projectgivingback.bsky.social @annhutchinson.bsky.social
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“The breath is a bridge between body & mind” – Swami Rama 🧘‍♀️

Join @katebinnie.bsky.social for a hybrid course on holistic support 🌿

🗓 24 Oct 2025 | 💷 £235 (Early bird till 12 Sept!)

🔗https://shorturl.at/kNitg

#PalliativeCare #HolisticCare #MindBodyIntegration #BookNow #OUH #EarlyBird #hybrid #NHS

If you live with lung disease & breathlessness/anxiety 🫁😫you can access FREE online support at Asthma+Lung UK & Roy Castle Foundation. "Body Breathing" sessions are trauma-informed, fully accessible & offer tips & tricks to develop coping skills based on my PhD research @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social

Online Support Sessions - Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation We run a series of online support sessions via Zoom focusing on a variety of lung cancer-related topics. Run by experienced facilitators, the online support sessions give you the opportunity to learn ...

*Free* online support group for people living with Lung Cancer & caregivers. I'll be sharing practical breath-body-mind skills to help manage breathlessness, anxiety & fatigue that anyone can do, anywhere! For more info & to sign up see ⬇️ 🙏🏼👍🏼

roycastle.org/help-and-sup...

Fantastic!!! Well done 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Trauma Informed Care We are pleased to announce our new course on trauma-informed care. Working in palliative and end-of-life care, you will encounter people affected by trauma – whether your patients, their families and ...

New Trauma-informed palliative care course at Sobell House Oxford 16/6. I'll be teaching alongside Dr Mary Miller to explain what TiC is, why we need to think about it + practical skills.

www.sobelleducation.org.uk/product/trauma-informed-care/

I've been teaching yoga, breathwork and meditation to patients, caregivers & HCPs in palliative care settings for a long time. My #realist research @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social unpicks the relational & soothing mechanisms activated by these approaches that lead to down-regulation of distress.

PGCert, PGDip and MSc in Palliative Care: Implementing Best Practice Learn how to develop, deliver and evaluate care that facilitates best practice in palliative care and care for people living with life-limiting conditions.

Our Postgraduate Taught webinars continue next week! Discover how our PGCert, PGDip and MSc in Palliative Care: Implementing Best Practice programme will help you to make a difference to people living with long-term and life-limiting conditions: www.hyms.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Research shows painful truth of end of life care New research by Hull York Medical School underpins a new Marie Curie report highlighting patchy and inconsistent end of life care.

New research funded by MarieCurie, highlighting patchy and inconsistent end of life care. The report aims to drive change to improve care for people with advanced illness and their families. See www.hull.ac.uk/work-with-us...

“I have never felt so alone and vulnerable” – A qualitative study of bereaved people’s experiences of end-of-life cancer care during the Covid-19 pandemic - BMC Palliative Care Background COVID-19 drastically affected healthcare services world-wide. In the UK, many cancer services were overwhelmed as oncology staff were reassigned, and cancer diagnoses and treatments were de...

New paper now out: “I have never felt so alone and vulnerable” – A qualitative study of bereaved people’s experiences of end-of-life cancer care during the Covid-19 pandemic. Led by Lara Burton and Dr Emily Harrop. Open access.

bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

A man lies in bed on a palliative care ward, a relative holds his hand as a nurse attends to him.

Support for end-of-life care and bereavement remains inadequate.

We urgently need a community centred, public health approach to the social processes of dying and grieving, backed by properly funded palliative care, writes @lucyselman.bsky.social
#ChristmasBMJ

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Join me 8/9 Feb to explore simple, practical skills from the tradition of yoga (mindfulness, breath & bodywork, compassionate self-other awareness) to support people living with life-limiting illness, loss & grief. #palliative #yogacampus