Tag Archives: End-of-life care

Pic: Getty Images Good quality end-of-life care throughout a patient’s journey is needed in all settings, and in general hospitals in particular, a conference in Dublin earlier this month heard.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has announced the distribution of grants worth €500,000 towards transforming spaces in hospitals for people at end of life.

All hospitals should have strategies for dealing with palliative, end-of-life care and bereavement, a new report from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children has urged.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent English High Court case in which friends of a man in a minimally conscious state told the court that he would wish to die with dignity.

By Catherine Reilly.

Many people live and die in pain in the sub-Saharan country, but palliative care eases pain amid challenges in rural Uganda, write Irish-trained doctors, Dr Barry Mahon and Dr Karen Redmond.

Dara Gantly looks at the vexatious issue of ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders in the context of a recent HIQA inspection at Mullross Nursing Home and examines the continued lack of guidance for doctors in this area.

By Gary Culliton.

By Gary Culliton.

With reports of questionable interventions being carried out on dying patients, Dr Muiris Houston finds invasive testing and treatment can be a significant side effect of modern medicine.