End of Life Care with Dan, Georgina, Diane and Caroline

This episode focuses on a vital part of pre-hospital care; that of end of life care. Dan Davis explores this area with Caroline Philips, Diane Laverty, Georgina Murphy Jones. As all three guests work in various capacities for Macmillan they explore both the similarities and variations of palliative and EoLC and the subtle changes in approach to these patients. They look at the mindset change of approach to these patents in de-emphasising resuscitation and focusing on rapport building, supporting documented wishes and multi-agency engagement to facilitate the best care in the last period of a patient's life. Diane Laverty works as a Macmillan Nurse Consultant and is passionate about specialist palliative care and EoLC patients having a voice and receiving high quality care across all domains of practice.  Caroline Philips and Georgina Murphy Jones work as paramedic clinical tutors and Macmillan specialist clinicians helping embed both EoLC training and practice across London and to fellow colleagues. They examine the difficulty of not having prior rapport with these patients & families and some of the variations we would expect to see when looking at the physiology and clinical findings. This episode is especially important in the current climate and Dan brings this into focus talking about his own experiences with EoLC with his own father.  Please enjoy this episode which discusses this relevant and important narrative within pre-hospital care.