@natashabradley
Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at UCL. Seeking to improve the lives of people living with serious illness. Interested in palliative care, health inequalities, and research methods. Views my own.
New paper alert! 🌟We explored the first year of an ambitious redesign to hospice services. Successful implementation happens when teams collaborate, adapt to changes, and receive support and feedback.
Thrilled to see this published! #palliativecare
Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
New paper alert! 🌟We explored the first year of an ambitious redesign to hospice services. Successful implementation happens when teams collaborate, adapt to changes, and receive support and feedback.
Thrilled to see this published! #palliativecare
Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
🏅Announcing our awarded Research Impact Grants - 4/6
Connection, Compassion, and Action - Achieving impact towards integrated palliative care through knowledge mobilisation
Don't miss this free online conference next Weds! 😍
"Caught between the dream and realities: considering advance care planning (ACP)"
Register: tinyurl.com/4zbbpxka
Amazing line-up, asking:
How is ACP being used?
Does the public engage with ACP?
What are the challenges in ACP?
Where to next?
Don't miss this free online conference next Weds! 😍
"Caught between the dream and realities: considering advance care planning (ACP)"
Register: tinyurl.com/4zbbpxka
Amazing line-up, asking:
How is ACP being used?
Does the public engage with ACP?
What are the challenges in ACP?
Where to next?
Really pleased to share that this realist review on integrated palliative care in oncology has now been published by BMC Medicine.
We focused on cancer but there are transferable lessons to non-malignant conditions and comorbidities.
Open access article: rdcu.be/elqkN
#palliativecare
If a government wanted to stop us being strangers, it could stop shovelling money at the tech bros & surveillance & start spending it on buses & cycle infrastructure & public spaces, it could regulate pay, hours, working conditions & rents better so people had energy to engage in their community.
A new realist review from @natashabradley.bsky.social, Dr Tracey McConnell, Professor Joanne Reid and colleagues highlights the context, challenges and recommendations for integrating palliative care into oncology services. 👇
Agree with you! + these kind of explanations function to reduce the threat to an individual: an unconscious "its not going to happen to me because I eat my vegetables" etc. Individualistic public health messaging continues to the blame culture. Addressing the structural determinants of health is key
@mariecurieeolc.bsky.social
Really pleased to share that this realist review on integrated palliative care in oncology has now been published by BMC Medicine.
We focused on cancer but there are transferable lessons to non-malignant conditions and comorbidities.
Open access article: rdcu.be/elqkN
#palliativecare
It's #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek!
If you're in London, come join us @codydock.bsky.social tomorrow for a thought-provoking and entertaining evening.
#DyingMatters
#TheCultureofDyingMatters
Registration link below...
I am so looking forward to 'Cycles of Life' at @codydock.bsky.social
Join us for a special evening in a beautiful venue with brilliant speakers - inc. an artist, chaplain, ecologist, historian, psychologist, and an end-of-life doula 😍
You can register here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cycles-of-...
Graph showing attitudes towards same sex relations over time. Negative responses peaked in 1987 with 75% believing homosexuality was always/mostly wrong. This figure dropped below 20% in 2017.
The introduction of Section 28 marked the peak of homophobic attitudes in the UK.
For the years it was law, the belief that homosexuality was wrong diminished and acceptance grew.
We lost the battle to halt Section 28 but it armed us well to win the war.
Laws can’t crush us.
Keep hope alive. 💜
16/16
We have been describing the association between area-based deprivation and place of death for 30 years but we know little about causes and moderators or how to reduce inequalities. Our new paper in SSM Pop Health investigates with some surprising results...
👇👇👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I'm organising a public event to hear from different people on themes related to Mortality, in a beautiful venue in East London.
We have some brilliant speakers already and there is time for more volunteers to contribute.
Save the date and watch this space for a registration link coming soon!
Important and timely work from @dianateggi.bsky.social and colleagues.
Findings highlight the urgency of improving home-based services and providing real alternatives to hospital, if existing policy narratives around choice are to become meaningful.
#palliativecare #endoflifecare #academicsky
"For every patient we look after, there are others that we can’t care for. I really feel for the families. The ones that do get a bed can take a deep breath, it’s such a relief. People say they can go back to being a husband or daughter again rather than a carer.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”
- St Augustine (maybe)
Plant everything now....Plant even the idea of a wave.
It's a good day that starts with inspiration from @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social, but brought by puppets.
Hope is a muscle (adrienne taught me this but many poets have said it before and since - so it must be true)
#academicsky
Real honour to chair today's @mariecurieuk.bsky.social #MCResearch2025 conference session on poverty at end of life. Sobering new research:
- Numbers dying in poverty rose to 110,000 in 2023.
- Risk of dying in poverty far higher for working age, but also now rising for pensioners. 1/4
You can also now download and read our report, "'To Know Dying' Identifying research areas in palliative and end of life care for the social sciences and humanities"
healthopenresearch.org/documents/7-1
@ericaborgstrom.bsky.social @brionyhudson.bsky.social @marigreenfield.bsky.social
Wonderful day yesterday and a landmark moment - launching the new set of priorities for palliative care research.
Another impressive achievement from the Marie Curie team! 👏😊
@mariecurieeolc.bsky.social
@sabinebest.bsky.social
@brionyhudson.bsky.social
@devirsagar.bsky.social
Benefits of Early and Longitudinal Palliative Care in the Ambulatory Care Setting Enhances quality of life Increases use of adaptive coping strategies Reduces symptoms of depression Fosters prognostic awareness Improves communication about end-of-life care preferences Leads to earlier initiation of hospice services Decreases caregiver distress #hapc25
Benefits of Early Outpatient #PalliativeCare
Enhances QOL
Increases adaptive coping strategies
Reduces symptoms of depression
Fosters prognostic awareness
Improves communication about EOL care preferences
Leads to earlier initiation of #hospice services
Decreases caregiver distress
#hapc25
It took me a few days to process so it must be solid gold
@matthewhodson.bsky.social @philipcbaldwin.bsky.social @nagingtonuom.bsky.social @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social
This research could reveal and change heteronormativity in end-of-life care. I wonder if you amazing blueskyers could help by sharing the survey link or taking part?
(Flattery works, right?)
@annefinucane.bsky.social
I am not sure where you are in the UK - but Anne is brilliant, and I think she has also worked with colleagues to produce some educational resources on this topic
Hiiii sunshine 💛
It really is hard to believe that he has this much power, or even that he had the time and concentration span to do all this (as well as everything else that's happened this week). 😣
How does that poem go again?
#academicsky please read
www.science.org/content/arti...
Wow, surely this is one of the best titles I've ever seen 👏