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Malcolm Payne

Social care and social work are important in end-of-life care.

Malcolm Payne's blog focuses on developments in social care and social work that affect palliative and end-of-life care. It is part of the information work of St Christopher's Hospice, London.

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Palliative care conference in Japan

February 22nd, 2010 by Malcolm Payne


Just back from a palliative care conference in Japan at the Peace House Hospice; a committed and thoughtful multiprofessional crowd with a good number of social workers:

Waiting for lectureYou may be intrigued by the surgical masks; no, we were not carrying dread diseases and the pollution is not bad, this is a Japanese health preventive practice; perhaps with no good evidence to support it, so we were told.

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