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Sarah Bowers

@spbowers.bsky.social
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Palliative care registrar and PhD student in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Interested in data, public involvement and improving care for those with life limiting conditions.

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Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity @jmultimorbidity.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This weeks article of the week is from one of our Editorial Fellows @spbowers.bsky.social Descriptions of advanced multimorbidity: A scoping review with content analysis journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sarah Bowers @spbowers.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Thanks Simon! Our paper on unscheduled healthcare use will be out soon. Grateful to have the chance to present this part of my PhD analysis in Helsinki at #EAPC2025
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Sharon Hudson she/her/they @sharonhudson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Astonishing numbers of participants to CHELSEA 2. It IS possible to do research in Palliative Care #PCC2025
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Sarah Bowers @spbowers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Just touched down in Belfast. Excited to get set up for #PCC2025
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Sabine Best @sabinebest.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Session recording from @spbowers.bsky.social @felicitydewhurst.bsky.social on palliative care for people with multiple long-term conditions #MCResearch2025 now live-this is addressing priority 5 of the new @jameslindalliance.bsky.social Peolc research priorities healthopenresearch.org/documents/7-2
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Sarah Bowers @spbowers.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It is an immense honour to receive The Richard Dodds Memorial Prize Certificate for my poster at the @gerisoc.bsky.social Autumn Meeting. I’m incredibly grateful to Dr Dodds’ family & @gerisoc.bsky.social for this opportunity!
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Lucy Selman @lucyselman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New paper now out: “I have never felt so alone and vulnerable” – A qualitative study of bereaved people’s experiences of end-of-life cancer care during the Covid-19 pandemic. Led by Lara Burton and Dr Emily Harrop. Open access. bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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“I have never felt so alone and vulnerable” – A qualitative study of bereaved people’s experiences of end-of-life cancer care during the Covid-19 pandemic - BMC Palliative Care
Background COVID-19 drastically affected healthcare services world-wide. In the UK, many cancer services were overwhelmed as oncology staff were reassigned, and cancer diagnoses and treatments were de...
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Anne Finucane @annefinucane.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Invitation - open until Sunday 12th: If you are a UK-based researcher, or clinician conducting palliative care research, please complete our brief survey to help funders understand what is needed to sustain and grow palliative care research in the UK. Now open until 12.1.25:
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Anne Finucane @annefinucane.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Invitation: If you are a UK-based researcher, or clinician conducting palliative care research, please complete our brief survey to help funders understand what is needed to sustain and grow palliative care research in the UK. Now open until 12.1.25: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/...
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Rose Penfold @rosespenfold.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
@spbowers.bsky.social - working with the third sector #PhD #multimorbidity
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Ellie Wagstaff @elliewagstaff.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
On #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay Marie Curie figures show 44,000 pensioners living with terminal illness across the UK will be denied Winter Fuel Payment this year: bit.ly/4fL4ANk @scottishgovernment.bsky.social must take the opportunity to support terminally ill people with energy bills in #ScotBudget
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Terminal cancer patient fears she 'won't survive' fuel allowance cut
Helen van Bueren, 77, from Derbyshire, who has Multiple Myeloma, is one of those who has lost her Winter Fuel Payment and said she fears she 'won't see the other side of this winter'.
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Sarah Bowers @spbowers.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Exciting programme ahead for today at the Multiple Long Term Conditions #MLTC Cross- #NIHR Collaboration Launch. Inspiring collaborations and a power of work being done in the field of #MLTC / #multimorbidity
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Sarah Bowers @spbowers.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Really important super short survey to capture the UK palliative care research capacity. Please consider completing this if you work in UK #palliativecare or #endoflifecare.
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Catherine Walshe @catherinewalshe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Interested in pursuing a #PhD related to #palliativecare? Come along to our no strings attached webinar 15th Jan 12 GMT. We will cover the why, what, where and so what. #hpm #hapc #research #PhDlife #phdchat events.teams.microsoft.com/event/52c1a4...
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Anne Finucane @annefinucane.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
*NEW* estimates of palliative care need in the UK: 2017-2021. bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Estimates of population-level palliative care need in the UK: a descriptive analysis of mortality data before and during the COVID-19 pandemic - BMC Palliative Care
Background Existing estimates of palliative care need in the UK were produced before the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to produce updated, population-level estimates of palliative care need for each of...
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Catherine Walshe @catherinewalshe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I've updated the #hapc #palliativecare starter packs so now there are two. Do let me know if you want to be added (but check you aren't there first please!). Lots of great people to follow here. go.bsky.app/E8o273Y
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Sarah Bowers @spbowers.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Very excited by the brilliant quality abstracts that have come in for PCC 2025!
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Esther Clift @estherclift.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
@rosespenfold.bsky.social describing dementia diagnosis in acute hospital setting and sharing in primary care1:4. Often older living with more frailty and lower socioeconomic- receiving poorer community interventions @gerisoc.bsky.social #BGSconf
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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Dear followers, If you can help... LIKE and REPOST. Many thanks! #PalliativeCare #HAPM #HPM #HAPC #Hospice
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Sarah Bowers @spbowers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Delighted to be at #BGSConf learning about new ways of delivering care for older adults and the research ongoing in this field. Great to have my ePoster here - would welcome any thoughts, comments or discussion from it via the Poster Platform. Thanks @gerisoc.bsky.social for the opportunity!
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Nneka Ufere, MD MSCE @nnekauferemd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Psychological distress is prevalent and interdependent among patients with decompensated cirrhosis and their caregivers, confirming cirrhosis as a SHARED EMOTIONAL CONTAGION within dyads - our new study published in @AmJGastro #palliativehepatology journals.lww.com/ajg/abstract...
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Psychological Distress is Prevalent and Interdependent... : Official journal of the American College of Gastroenterology | ACG
mong 127 patient-caregiver dyads using Actor-Partner Interdependence Modeling. Results: Among dyads, 26% had both partners reporting clinically significant anxiety and 18% reporting clinically sign...
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Bex @rebeccajpw.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Delighted to serve as guest editor and share this call for papers on #cultural consideration in #PalliativeCare. Any questions I can help with, message away! #hpm www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...
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Call for papers - Cultural considerations in palliative care
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Palliative Care Congress @pccongress.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Join us for #PCC2025 20 - 21 March 2025 ICC Belfast Programme available pccongress.org.uk 🎟️Book your tickets pccongress.org.uk/registration/ "the best way to predict the future is to create it"
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Sarah Bowers @spbowers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hello BlueSky 👋 I’m a Palliative Care registrar in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and currently undertaking a PhD in exploring experiences of multimorbidity at the end of life. Hoping to find some more human connections with others interested in similar areas. #palliativecare #palliativecareresearch #multimorbidity
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