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Prof Sara Ryan Inaugural Professorial Lecture - 15 June 2022

This is a recording of Professor Sara Ryan's Inaugural Professorial Lecture, titled "How the hell did we get here and what are we going to do about it? Learning disability and the lingering…

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Why it’s important to talk to others if you’re concerned about your health

Advice for Pwle: Encouraging them to talk to someone they trust rather than worrying alone. Minimising stress: address concerns early and speak to the right person.

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Hostels and substance use

Hostel placements can exacerbate a person’s substance use – but they are off the streets. Working in homelessness: about as many people die as those who recover. In contrast to PC staff,…

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Recognising the links between trauma, substance use and homelessness

Need policy change -and greater recognition of the links between trauma, SU and homelessness.Need collaborative work across hostels – need to challenge the feeling that people who use…

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Improving end of life care for the future

Improving End of Life Care for the future – local models but need to provide support for people (40s+) who want to carry on using substances.Society needs to take more responsibility for…

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The challenges of scarce resources

Practitioners balancing resource allocation, trying to teach colleagues not to judge whether someone ‘deserves’ care, the unpredictability of death. Fighting for scarce resources:…

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Having natural conversations

Timing conversations: using the ‘window of opportunity’ after hospital discharge.

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Keeping track of people’s health changes over time

Recording observations over time to identify when health changes occur. Using the SPICT.

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Acknowledging the sensitivity of someone using substances in relation to pain relief

Acknowledging SU sensitively – in the context of managing pain relief. Judging the truth about SU. Maintaining own honesty and giving people the time to trust enough to say. Stigma preventing…

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Change the recovery narrative: death is not a service failure

Staff need for peer support – especially for people outside of medical field, where death is not expected to be part of working life.

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Staff training in both substance use and end of life care

Staff training: what palliative care staff need to know about substance use.

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Trauma informed care, partnership and societal tolerance

SU service / partnership working – focus on trauma informed care. The need for a more tolerant society; Multiple challenges: need multi-agency partnerships to ensure wraparound support

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Compassion in the face of marginalisation

Compassion for people approaching end of life – acknowledging that some provision can be poor for people from marginalised groups

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Case study about place of care whilst dying

Examples of people who have been cared for whilst dying; Choice over place of care while dying.

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Bereavement Network support

Support for families when someone dies: Love Jasmine (Support for families in Merseyside who have lost a child)

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Partnership working and developing good practice

Partnership working to support practitioners in providing End of Life Care; Examples of developing good practice.

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