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This work with @katherinesleeman.bsky.social and @flissmurtagh.bsky.social shows how we can use routine data to understand causes and help find ways to address inequality in palliative and end of life care

For people who died from cancer, those living in more deprived areas were more likely to live alone and this partly explained why they were more likely to die in hospital. Improving support for people living alone in more deprived areas is a potential way to reduce inequalities in place of death.

It’s well known that people who live in more deprived areas are more likely to die in hospital, but our analysis shows that this depends on cause of death – we see a gradient for people who die from cancer, dementia and ‘other’ causes, but not for respiratory, cardiovascular and sudden causes

Massive thank you to first author Rehaan Husain, medical student and King’s Undergraduate Research Fellow (KURF) who worked incredibly hard to deliver this work!

Examples of best practice include using reasonable adjustments and job crafting to support staff to continue working and leave with dignity when the time is right.

Just 8 had sickness policies that mention terminal illness explicitly, and only 5 had a dedicated terminal illness policy.

No policy addressed support for staff on fixed-term contracts who make up a major part of the HE workforce.

We reviewed support across the 24 Russel group universities to get a snapshot of provision in the HE sector. We found significant gaps and variation in support offered to staff living with terminal illness…

Thank you @donnawakefield.bsky.social - the short link has failed! Thanks for sharing a working one :)

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