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Annabel

@annabelhowell.bsky.social

Mum and wife, loving life in Scotland. Medical Director, Childrens’ Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS), ViceChair My Name’5 Doddie Foundation, PhD student University of Hull re digital tech used in palliative care during the pandemic.

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Because We Care - The Overview
YouTube video by Strath HASS Because We Care - The Overview

Film #2: Overview
Siblings of children with life-limiting conditions share their powerful perspectives in our second #BecauseWeCare film.
youtu.be/JysuiVrzH-8?...
#ChildHealth #EmpathyInCare
@clairecassidy.bsky.social @drannar.bsky.social @alisonmurray.bsky.social @sarahwishart.bsky.social

12.05.2025 15:38 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Good to talk to Mark @prospectmagazine.co.uk for this interview, following on from this @bmj.com piece on Facing Death Differently www.bmj.com/content/387/...

28.04.2025 18:29 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Upcoming Webinars MAIN

My Grief My Way: All welcome to our webinar on the development of an acceptance based bereavement support website to enhance coping and quality of life after bereavement. 10.06.25. With @davidgillanders.bsky.social

Register:
www.mainexchange.org.uk/webinars/

Funded by @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social

04.04.2025 08:12 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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See more details on our website 👇
www.myname5doddie.co.uk/whats-on/art...

14.04.2025 16:15 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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14.04.2025 16:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The flyer for "Powers, Puzzles, and Prescience", an escape room by Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief. It's styled to look like an old superhero comic, with a figure of a caped hero and an old woman using a cane.

The flyer for "Powers, Puzzles, and Prescience", an escape room by Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief. It's styled to look like an old superhero comic, with a figure of a caped hero and an old woman using a cane.

Are you ready to try something new this #DemystifyDeath week?

Try running an Escape Room in your local community!

Find out more and order a kit here (Scotland only)- www.goodlifedeathgrief.org.uk/escape-room/

Watch this short video to see more-
vimeo.com/1072772593?s...

11.04.2025 12:03 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2

Good to see you here- stay strong

06.04.2025 09:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Delighted to share this podcast of our AHRC funded project #BecauseWeCare
Voices of #siblings of children with life-limiting conditions. Listen here: tinyurl.com/4yzpenhn @paedpallcare.bsky.social @alisonmurray.bsky.social @annabelhowell.bsky.social @sarahwishart.bsky.social
#ClaireCassidy

04.04.2025 17:39 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Delighted to be part of such a beneficial piece of research- the experiences of siblings of children with life limiting conditions

04.04.2025 20:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Indeed - and many have found other ways to earn an income and cope- though to their detriment

03.04.2025 22:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wishing you a speedy recovery

01.04.2025 21:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Preview
What is a good death? A critical discourse policy analysis Objective The concept of a good death is a motivating factor for end of life care policy; this article examines what English end-of-life care (EOLC) policy defines as a good death. Methods Critical d...

My article 'What is a good death? A critical discourse policy analysis' is now in the BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care (Vol 14 Issue e3) [but online first a few years ago] spcare.bmj.com/content/14/e...

25.03.2025 11:44 — 👍 16    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0

Our Discovery Network Award is open for applications again: join a highly collaborative network of fantastic researchers and receive up to £1 million over 3 years!

Please share - and get in touch if you have any questions/would like to discuss a project proposal #MND #ALS #AcademicSky

24.03.2025 11:16 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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People with lived experience of MND are being invited to join a study to help better understand how to support people with MND to make decisions about their care,and what support people need

For more info or to express interest in involvement, please contact: sean.white3@nhs.net

21.03.2025 10:00 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – Bill with amendments to 15 March 2025 Prompted by a question from a colleague in Chambers who was (understandably) finding it very difficult to track through precisely how the Bill has been amended since starting the Public Bill Commit…

For those struggling to keep up with the amendments to the Terminally Ill Adults Bill, Prof Alex Ruck Keene KC has an up to date annotated version on his website www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/terminally-i...

16.03.2025 15:16 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Letter in today’s @theguardian.com from me and 34 other health and care professionals on the assisted dying panels.

Unfortunately they have cut 33 signatories - including social workers, psychiatrists, geriatricians.

This must be corrected.

www.theguardian.com/theobserver/...

16.03.2025 08:56 — 👍 12    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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#dunblane #notforgotten

13.03.2025 11:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Britain must learn from the Netherlands's mistakes on assisted dying As a former member of a euthanasia review board in the Netherlands, I have followed the debate of Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/on-a...
Informed opinion- but maybe those pushing this do not want that?

03.03.2025 19:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@britawards.bsky.social @ezracollective.bsky.social #britawards2025 #thankyoutoyouthdevelopment

01.03.2025 21:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@britawards.bsky.social @teddyswimsofficial.bsky.social great set- delighted to see Gala tartan !

01.03.2025 20:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@britawards.bsky.social @scarpenterbr.bsky.social really - sexualising women in this day and age is not good

01.03.2025 20:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Death doulas: helping people at the end of their life There is a growing demand for people who help the terminally ill have a good death.

ICYMI - Article in @theconversation.com Death doulas: helping people at the end of their life
theconversation.com/death-doulas...

26.02.2025 11:42 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

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