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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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....

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MarieCurieEOLC @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

🏅Announcing our awarded Research Impact Grants - 4/6 Connection, Compassion, and Action - Achieving impact towards integrated palliative care through knowledge mobilisation

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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?

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Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’

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Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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

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Integrated palliative care and oncology: a realist synthesis

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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.

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MarieCurieEOLC @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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. 👇

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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...

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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-...

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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

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.

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Joanna Davies @joannamdavies.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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...

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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!

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

"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...

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‘Hospices are in retreat’: funding crisis squeezing UK palliative care providers

St Catherine’s hospice in West Sussex says it has been forced to leave beds empty despite the demand for end-of-life care

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

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

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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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

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John MacArtney @johnmacartney.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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

Screenshot of report's title page giving title and authors (all included in main message).

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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

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Christian Sinclair @ctsinclair.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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

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

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

@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?)

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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...

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

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Literally every company now

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 10/01/2025

"Choice can only be exercised when options exist that enable equitable access to comprehensive care." On the cover, a Comment explores assisted dying, complex systems, and global equity in palliative care. Read this & more ➡️ tinyurl.com/42n97mp4

Cover of The Lancet's Jan 11, 2025 issue. Quote on cover reads: "Norms from high-income countries about what constitutes a good death have been exported and influence practice globally, often at odds with local death and dying systems."

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

An audiobook I loved and will return to - stories of the working lives of famously accomplished people and wise advice on how to master your productivity. Sharing as a reminder to myself as much as to recommend to others: Do fewer things. Obsess over quality. Work at a natural pace. #academicsky

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CDAS: Centre for Death and Society @cendeathsociety.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

⭐️ The 2025 CDAS Conference call for papers is OPEN!! ⭐️ Theme? Death and transition When? 12-13 June 2025 online Full details via the link below www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Looking forward to this! I am part way through 'Unheard' as an audio book and I would definitely recommend - it's fascinating company for some January tidying. Inspirational work @drrageshri.bsky.social 👏

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

For those of you interested in community building: emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-se... "Competition makes sense only when we consider the unit of evolution to be the individual. When the focus shifts to the level of a group, cooperation is a better model, not only for surviving but for thriving"

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The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer

As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.

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Kimberly Curseen MD @curseen.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

“fragmented, unsupported caregiving in a sea of chaos leaves lifelong scars, diminishing carers’ trust in both the health system and government as a whole. “ must read I’ve never read it put so well. #hapc katherinepettusconsulting.wordpress.com/2024/12/21/p...

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Palliative care creates small islands of coherence

“When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.” Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning che…

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Amara Nwosu @amaranwosu.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Facilitators of high quality out-of-hours care include: a palliative care specific single point of access for patients; formal structures to integrate generalist/specialist services; and timely/skilled management of symptoms journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #hapc #PalliativeCare #hpm /1

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libbysallnow.bsky.social @libbysallnow.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

@thelancet.bsky.social Comment out today: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Social and structural determinants of dying well and the complex systems they exist in #palliativecare #socialdeterminantsofhealth

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I wrote an article about my dad's death, and how it affected my views on assisted dying, published in the Times Free version here

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11/12/2024

we must reclaim the idea of the future; we must tell people a story and give them a picture of that better world we are building together and when i say "story" and "picture" i mean that in the most literal possible sense

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Learning about Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners helped me to see the world in a different, more hopeful, way. When oppressed and divided communities work together, they become so much more powerful than the sum of their parts. This kind of solidarity is what creates a progressive society.

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I love being part of projects that seek to remove barriers to health and to research involvement. These findings highlight the importance of really listening to people. The lead author tried out a robust and innovative combination of Q-methodology and realist synthesis: doi.org/10.1123/jpah...

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

There used to be an assumption that research participation is burdensome to palliative care patients. This is changing now. Altruism, legacy, and being heard - these can all be meaningful, even at the very end of life (see quote!) Reflecting on lessons from hospice research nurses at #HospiceUKConf

"Sign me up to anything! If it makes a difference to someone else's life, I'm in!" - Hospice patient

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Maybe I need to get out there and keep spreading the word….. #PalliativeCare is not synonymous with #EndOfLife care Pass it on.

I am once again asking you to remember that palliative care is more than just end-of-life care

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A beautiful morning in Glasgow! Wonderful to hear lots of optimism about building hospice research capacity #HospiceUKConf

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

'Virtual wards' can be used for both short-term crisis and long-term proactive care. This review looked at research evidence and spoke with stakeholders to develop explanations of how virtual wards can function effectively as a forum for integration. Read here: academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Two in one 😀 Read about realist evaluation, how it differs from other research approaches, and why it is well-suited for palliative care: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... And how we can get to high-quality realist research through strong reflexivity practice: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Is it possible to measure the outcomes of social support groups in palliative care? This paper suggests yes - by collecting data over time from 30 patients in four different hospices, we observed a difference in loneliness, depression, and perceived emotional support: www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19...

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The bigger question is WHY did hospices offer social support to people with life-limiting illness? How did the patient's context contribute to risk of isolation or loneliness, and what are the mechanisms through which positive outcomes can be achieved? More here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

How did hospices offer social support to people with life-limiting illness? We carried out a survey to understand what activities were involved, in which settings, to what aims. The survey documents hospice activity before the turbulence of 2020: bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This week I will be sharing links to some of my research contributions. First up - my PhD. We all need support from other people. Social support has an important (& often overlooked) role in coping with illness. Lots of meaning comes from our social world - even (or especially) when we're sick.

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