Professor Max Watson is Director of Project ECHO at Hospice UK in London, former Medical Director of Northern Ireland Hospice, Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queens University Belfast, and Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) 2024, for services to Palliative Care Medicine.Rachel Campbell is a speciality trainee in palliative medicine at the Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency (NIMDTA), and was formerly was an ADEPT Fellow on the Clinical Leadership Fellow's Program. Nandini Vallath is a clinical consultant and director of projects at the Trivandum Institute of Palliative Sciences in India. She was awarded the 2015 Cancer Aid Society Palliative Care Award for Excellence and Leadership in the SAARC region. Nandini collaborates with NGOs and government officials to develop policies to improve palliative care, and has helped develop modules for palliative care at undergratudate and professional levels.Stephen Ward is a Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. In addition to providing a clinical pharmacy service in the Royal Victoria Hospital, he has also developed a medication safety programme for final year medical students. Stephen studied pharmacy in Queen's University Belfast before working as a hospital pharmacist in Uganda. Following this, he worked as a clinical pharmacist in the Belfast Trust and Northern Ireland Hospice. His research interests include medical education, palliative care and respiratory medicine.Jo Wells is a Nurse Consultant at the Southern Adelaide Palliative Service in Australia, and was formerly a Support Services Co-ordinator at The Leukaemia Foundation, South Australia.

A good, affordable, pocket-sized, reference providing a reasonable coverage of palliative care.

• 1: Ethical issues and the person in the patient 2: Communication in palliative care 3: Research in palliative care 4: Quality of life 5: Principles of drug use in palliative care 6: Oncology and palliative care 7: Palliative care and haematology 8: Pain management 9: Gastrointestinal symptoms 10: Respiratory symptoms 11: Genitourinary symptoms 12: Skin problems in palliative care 13: Neurological problems in advanced cancer 14: Palliation of head and neck cancer 15: Endocrine and metabolic complications of advanced cancer 16: Paediatrics 17: Heart failure 18: Renal failure 19: HIV and palliative care 20: Dementia and frailty 21: Palliative care in non-malignant neurological disease 22: Psychiatric symptoms in palliative care 23: Spiritual care 24: The contribution to palliative care of allied health professions 25: Complementary and alternative medicine 26: Population based end of life care 27: Hospital liaison 28: Palliative and end of life care for people with learning disabilities 29: Emergencies 30: Terminal phase 31: Bereavement 32: Self care for health professionals 33: Access to palliative care - international perspectives 34: Miscellaneous

Professor Max Watson is Director of Project ECHO at Hospice UK in London, former Medical Director of Northern Ireland Hospice, Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queens University Belfast, and Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) 2024, for services to Palliative Care Medicine.Rachel Campbell is a speciality trainee in palliative medicine at the Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency (NIMDTA), and was formerly was an ADEPT Fellow on the Clinical Leadership Fellow's Program. Nandini Vallath is a clinical consultant and director of projects at the Trivandum Institute of Palliative Sciences in India. She was awarded the 2015 Cancer Aid Society Palliative Care Award for Excellence and Leadership in the SAARC region. Nandini collaborates with NGOs and government officials to develop policies to improve palliative care, and has helped develop modules for palliative care at undergratudate and professional levels.Stephen Ward is a Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. In addition to providing a clinical pharmacy service in the Royal Victoria Hospital, he has also developed a medication safety programme for final year medical students. Stephen studied pharmacy in Queen's University Belfast before working as a hospital pharmacist in Uganda. Following this, he worked as a clinical pharmacist in the Belfast Trust and Northern Ireland Hospice. His research interests include medical education, palliative care and respiratory medicine.Jo Wells is a Nurse Consultant at the Southern Adelaide Palliative Service in Australia, and was formerly a Support Services Co-ordinator at The Leukaemia Foundation, South Australia.

A good, affordable, pocket-sized, reference providing a reasonable coverage of palliative care.

• 1: Ethical issues and the person in the patient 2: Communication in palliative care 3: Research in palliative care 4: Quality of life 5: Principles of drug use in palliative care 6: Oncology and palliative care 7: Palliative care and haematology 8: Pain management 9: Gastrointestinal symptoms 10: Respiratory symptoms 11: Genitourinary symptoms 12: Skin problems in palliative care 13: Neurological problems in advanced cancer 14: Palliation of head and neck cancer 15: Endocrine and metabolic complications of advanced cancer 16: Paediatrics 17: Heart failure 18: Renal failure 19: HIV and palliative care 20: Dementia and frailty 21: Palliative care in non-malignant neurological disease 22: Psychiatric symptoms in palliative care 23: Spiritual care 24: The contribution to palliative care of allied health professions 25: Complementary and alternative medicine 26: Population based end of life care 27: Hospital liaison 28: Palliative and end of life care for people with learning disabilities 29: Emergencies 30: Terminal phase 31: Bereavement 32: Self care for health professionals 33: Access to palliative care - international perspectives 34: Miscellaneous

Professor Max Watson is Director of Project ECHO at Hospice UK in London, former Medical Director of Northern Ireland Hospice, Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queens University Belfast, and Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) 2024, for services to Palliative Care Medicine.Rachel Campbell is a speciality trainee in palliative medicine at the Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency (NIMDTA), and was formerly was an ADEPT Fellow on the Clinical Leadership Fellow's Program. Nandini Vallath is a clinical consultant and director of projects at the Trivandum Institute of Palliative Sciences in India. She was awarded the 2015 Cancer Aid Society Palliative Care Award for Excellence and Leadership in the SAARC region. Nandini collaborates with NGOs and government officials to develop policies to improve palliative care, and has helped develop modules for palliative care at undergratudate and professional levels.Stephen Ward is a Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. In addition to providing a clinical pharmacy service in the Royal Victoria Hospital, he has also developed a medication safety programme for final year medical students. Stephen studied pharmacy in Queen's University Belfast before working as a hospital pharmacist in Uganda. Following this, he worked as a clinical pharmacist in the Belfast Trust and Northern Ireland Hospice. His research interests include medical education, palliative care and respiratory medicine.Jo Wells is a Nurse Consultant at the Southern Adelaide Palliative Service in Australia, and was formerly a Support Services Co-ordinator at The Leukaemia Foundation, South Australia.

A good, affordable, pocket-sized, reference providing a reasonable coverage of palliative care.

• 1: Ethical issues and the person in the patient 2: Communication in palliative care 3: Research in palliative care 4: Quality of life 5: Principles of drug use in palliative care 6: Oncology and palliative care 7: Palliative care and haematology 8: Pain management 9: Gastrointestinal symptoms 10: Respiratory symptoms 11: Genitourinary symptoms 12: Skin problems in palliative care 13: Neurological problems in advanced cancer 14: Palliation of head and neck cancer 15: Endocrine and metabolic complications of advanced cancer 16: Paediatrics 17: Heart failure 18: Renal failure 19: HIV and palliative care 20: Dementia and frailty 21: Palliative care in non-malignant neurological disease 22: Psychiatric symptoms in palliative care 23: Spiritual care 24: The contribution to palliative care of allied health professions 25: Complementary and alternative medicine 26: Population based end of life care 27: Hospital liaison 28: Palliative and end of life care for people with learning disabilities 29: Emergencies 30: Terminal phase 31: Bereavement 32: Self care for health professionals 33: Access to palliative care - international perspectives 34: Miscellaneous