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John Sheridan RN
@johnsheridanrn.bsky.social
RN, Program Manager, National #Palliative & #EndOfLifeCare Team @NHSEngland @Pers_Care. Trustee @TeessideHospice @NHSLeadership Msc grad. My own views 🏳️‍🌈
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Please retweet & follow me if you're interested in #PalliativeCare, #EndOfLifeCare & enabling people to 'Live as well as possible, for as long as possible'.
#ImproveEOLC #PEOLC #EoL #AgedCare #FutureCare #Frailty #CancerCare #Nurse #NeighbourhoodHealth #NHS #Hospice
Recently presented the work we've been doing around a #PalliativeCare & #EndOfLife Care Nursing Career Framework and Qualification in Specialty at NHS England.
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
@TeessideHospice, a highly regarded organisation that operates across South Tees & North Yorkshire is seeking a Director of Clinical Development reporting to the CEO, working closely with the Director of Nursing & Quality. #PalliativeCare #Hospice #PEOLC

www.teessidehospice.org/vacancies/cl...
Clinical Development Director
Clinical Development Director
www.teessidehospice.org
May 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Celebrating #VEDay80thAnniversary for those no longer with us who lived through & fought for our future. We remember that times were infinitely worse for those who lost their lives & lived through WW2 than we have now & in the last few years. #WeWillRememberThem #VEDay80
May 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This week has been emotional and life changing for our family, with the loss of our loved Barbara Kirk. An amazing, strong and determined Mum to Zachary & Xanthe, loving wife to Lee Kirk , sister to Stuart, Haley, Rachel, Martin, Jillian, Julie & Mandy, daughter of Patricia
April 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
#covidreflectionsday. Challenges faced by health & social care professionals, in what was a prolonged Major Incident, had immense impact on both them & wider society. The most challenging time of my professional career, made especially difficult being separated from family, friends & loved ones.
March 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
As a #Trustee of @TeessideHospice, it was great to join family, friends & colleagues at their #Charity Ball to raising funds so the #Hospice can deliver #SpecialistLevelPalliativeCare to people with #PalliativeCare needs across #Teesside & #NorthYorkshire - we had a ball 😜
March 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Good piece on issues and possible solutions with accessing end-of-life medicines in the community, and pleased to be able to contribute..

pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/feat...
‘A wicked problem’: tackling variable access to urgent palliative care medicines
“Me and my sister would drive huge distances late at night, completely exhausted, trying to find a chemist that could dispense the drugs. Nobody came out to deliver them or administer them or call in ...
pharmaceutical-journal.com
January 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Palliative Medicine Consultation Reduces Readmission Significantly in Certain Diagnoses: A Retrospective Analysis - Carissa N. Depew, Michelle Wood et al. 2025

Includes sepsis, heart failure & pneumonia - not just a review re the usual cancer diagnoses.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Palliative Medicine Consultation Reduces Readmission Significantly in Certain Diagnoses: A Retrospective Analysis - Carissa N. Depew, Michelle Wood, Jason Walden, Amanda Stevens, Michaela Williamson, ...
Hospital readmissions within 30 days are a significant concern due to their negative impact on patient outcomes and healthcare system costs.1 This retrospective...
journals.sagepub.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
An evening spent making home ready for Christmas. Eventually thawed out with a cheeky drink 😁 #SaltburnByTheSea #LoveYorkshire #LoveSaltburn #ItsBeginningToLookALotLikeChristmas #YorkshireCoast #Christmas
December 14, 2024 at 10:59 PM
As it was #ChristmasJumperDay, was good to join the team at NHS Enhalnd today be festive whilst working on all things #CommunityServices #PalliativeCare #PEOLC #Frailty #PersonalisedCare #EHCH #NHS
December 12, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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The official Association of Palliative Medicine for UK and Ireland is here! Follow @apmposts.bsky.social for all the APM, end of life and palliative tea from UK & Ireland #palliative #EOL
November 25, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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November 24, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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@ewidera.bsky.social may be of interest!
📢 New paper: Communicating treatment options to older patients with advanced kidney disease: a conversation analysis study.
bmcnephrol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
CA led by the brilliant Dr Chloe Shaw.
@nihr.bsky.social
@cacenotes.bsky.social @flissmurtagh.bsky.social
November 23, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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Using sedation at the end of life – information for healthcare staff
An international study on #palliative sedation is empowering patients and families with informed choices, supported by short animations for healthcare staff www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3KL...
Using Sedation at the End of Life – Information for Healthcare Staff
YouTube video by Lancaster University
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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Honoured to be selected as a top 3 finalist at the #NorthEast Bright Ideas in Health awards #BIHA2024 in the Research for local health needs category 🏆

Our #Research on #PalliativeCare & #Inequalities in pleural #Mesothelioma means the world to me 🫁
Funded by @mesouk.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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@deathstudiespod.bsky.social Beth's has come up with a list of five books to help if you are dealing with death and bereavement. You can read the list here www.open.ac.uk/blogs/news/a...
The Open University
www.open.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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Example of learning from other systems for proactive care
George Winder explaining how the local fire brigade moved from reactive to proactive care reduced fires from 3000/year to 300/year
We need to copy this approach for proactive care
#BGSConf
November 20, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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If you are showing an interest in the upcoming assisted dying bill - you must also read this #NCEPOD report into End of Life Care published this week…. ncepod.org.uk/2024eolc/Ful...
November 15, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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Timely report into current planning & coordination of end of life care: National Confidedential Enq into Pt Outcomes & Death shows gaps in services, breaching 2019 NICE guidance for commissioning & providing adequate, timely planning & delivery of #EoL care & access to palliative care teams.
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November 14, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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For an introvert, who usually shies away from public speaking….
I genuinely had a wonderful time tonight at my invited talk at UCL #London

Presenting & then discussing my life/career & #research on #Inequity in #PalliativeCare & #Lung disease 🫁
- great to meet everyone ☺️
November 14, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Please retweet & follow me if you're interested in #PalliativeCare, #EndOfLifeCare & enabling people to 'Live as well as possible, for as long as possible'.
#ImproveEOLC #PEOLC #EoL #AgedCare #FutureCare #Frailty #CancerCare #Nurse #NeighbourhoodHealth #NHS #Hospice
November 17, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Paramedics should be supported to make complex clinical decisions specific to #palliative care contexts with confidence and navigate holistic care pathways that prioritise referral functions available to other community-based clinicians. #hpm #hapc buff.ly/3YRr2NF
November 15, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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The Late Breaking Call for Abstracts will open on Monday 2 December and will close, with no exceptions, on Friday 27 December at 09:00 hrs UK time #PCC2025
November 14, 2024 at 2:25 PM