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Katie Flanagan @katieflanagan.bsky.social · Aug 7

Final interviews complete 🎉 It’s been a privilege to speak with staff and patients at @queenscourthospice.bsky.social about the potential of VR. Now it’s time to dive into the data and prepare for the implementation study! #VirtualReality #PalliativeCare

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Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · Aug 7

Great work @katieflanagan.bsky.social

Katie Flanagan @katieflanagan.bsky.social · Aug 7

Final interviews complete 🎉 It’s been a privilege to speak with staff and patients at @queenscourthospice.bsky.social about the potential of VR. Now it’s time to dive into the data and prepare for the implementation study! #VirtualReality #PalliativeCare

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Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · Aug 3

Brilliant night in Bristol 👏👊💪 @idlesband.bsky.social

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Katie Flanagan @katieflanagan.bsky.social · Jul 25

That’s a wrap on recruitment at Marie Curie Liverpool! I’ve spoken with staff & patients about whether VR could be used in a hospice 🥽 Huge thanks to the staff for their support through such uncertainty, and to the patients who shared their time & stories #PalliativeCare #VirtualReality

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Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · Jul 18

Thank you, Simon. I’m looking forward to getting this study up and running. We’ll be setting our advisory group up towards the end of the year if you are interested :)

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Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · Jul 14

Caring for someone with dementia near the end of life can be overwhelming.

Our project aims to improve death literacy: the knowledge, confidence, and skills needed to navigate end of life care.

Listen to a summary of the project here:

youtu.be/U0hEbfn7DoI

DLI-dem - Supporting dementia carers during the end of life care

YouTube video by Marie Curie

youtu.be

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Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thank you 🎉🥂

Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thank you 🎉

Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · Jun 25

🥳🎉🥂
www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resour...

Promotions 2024-25 - Successful List

Senior Academic, Research and Teaching Promotions 2024-25 successful list.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · Jun 23

Calling for your paper for the upcoming collection "Palliative care in people living with dementia"

I'm honoured to be on of the collection's Guest Editors. Learn more about the collection and how to contribute:
bit.ly/4i9VYkx

@biomedcentral.bsky.social #CallForPapers #Dementia

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Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · Jun 1

I still can’t believe I have won the 2025 European Association for Palliative Care Early Researcher Award! 🍀

Thank you to the @eapcvzw.bsky.social for the award, and thank you for all the kind and encouraging words I’ve received over the last days. I really really appreciate it!

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Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · May 3

If you have 5 minutes, please nominate the PALLIATIVE CARE RESEARCH SOCIETY charity.

With this donation, we can provide more opportunities to develop careers and facilitate public involvement in palliative care research.

Closes in 1 day.

health.movementforgood.com?utm_source=E...

#hapm

Nominate a charity - Movement for Good

Nominate a charity for a Movement for Good award now.

health.movementforgood.com

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Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · Apr 17

New paper out

A significant proportion of patients with metastatic cancer were unaware that their cancer was not curable at referral to the ESC service.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#hapm #hpm

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Amara Nwosu @amaranwosu.bsky.social · Mar 15

Well done to @katieflanagan.bsky.social for presenting a great paper in the @mariecurieuk.bsky.social Hospice Liverpool journal club about the role of #VirtualReality in palliative care for hospice patients.

#hapc
#palliativecare
#medsky
#vr
@nicolawhite.bsky.social
@sarah-stan.bsky.social

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Amara Nwosu @amaranwosu.bsky.social · Mar 6

Great to welcome @katieflanagan.bsky.social to Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool to prepare her #PhD to evaluate virtual reality in #PalliativeCare. It's amazing to have Katie join our team 😊

@mariecurieuk.bsky.social
@lancasteruni.bsky.social
@nicolawhite.bsky.social
#hapc
@sarah-stan.bsky.social

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Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · Feb 26

Im looking forward to this #hapm

Palliative Care Research Society @pcrscommittee.bsky.social · Feb 26

Navigating the Future of Assisted Dying Legislation in the UK
🗓️Wednesday 9 April
⏰13:00 – 14:30
🗨️Dr Nataly Papadopoulou & Professor Nancy Preston

More info 👇
pcrs.org.uk/events/pcrs-...
Bookings now open!
This webinar is FREE for PCRS members.

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Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · Feb 20

@qpr.co.uk made a young aspiring goalkeeper very happy with their online meet and greet with Paul Nardi today 💪⭐️ #urs #juniorhoopers

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Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · Jan 21

Welcome aboard, Libby 🎉💪

Amara Nwosu @amaranwosu.bsky.social · Jan 21

Congratulations to Libby Lavery who today starts her #research nurse role in Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool, to develop a virtual reality intervention to help manage pain advanced cancer.

#palliativecare
#hapc
#cancer
#medsky
@mariecurieuk.bsky.social
@nicolawhite.bsky.social
@ucl.ac.uk

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Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · Jan 16

Did you find the starter packs already? Catherine Walshe has put 2 together 👍

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John MacArtney @johnmacartney.bsky.social · Jan 10

REALLY IMPORTANT SURVEY for all those in the UK researching dying and palliative care.

The results will help shape research funding - so have your say, *especially* if you are have a social science or humanities background!

Anne Finucane @annefinucane.bsky.social · Jan 6

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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Dr Catriona R Mayland @catrionamayland.bsky.social · Jan 8

I've just joined Blue Sky - please say hello 👋so I can find like-minded people! Interests in palliative care and bereavement, improving quality and addressing inequities. bsky.app/profile/catr...

bsky.app

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libbysallnow.bsky.social @libbysallnow.bsky.social · Dec 17

@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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Dr Nicola White @nicolawhite.bsky.social · Dec 9

Another top night🤘

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Nov 30

Thanks @lbc.co.uk for having me on to discuss AD.

Both Keir Starmer & Wes Streeting know full well how grossly underfunded UK palliative care is - & they have the power to change that.

But will they?

Or will they turn their backs on dying people?

www.lbc.co.uk/news/palliat...

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John MacArtney @johnmacartney.bsky.social · Nov 27

You can find out more about this important initiative in this interview: www.mariecurie.org.uk/blog/the-imp...

#HospiceUKConf

“Through peer support, men provide therapy to each other”: A Q&A on the importance of Men’s Sheds.
How can a shed at a hospice help men who are grieving and living with a terminal illness? We spoke to researchers to find out.

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