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More Than the End of the Road: A Consultant's Perspective (opens the original)
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Palliative Care Is Not the End of the Story In this episode of The Journey Together , Tara Rafter is joined by Dr Anna Cleminson, Consultant in Palliative Care at North West Hospice, where she has spent more than a decade supporting individuals and families living with life-limiting illness. Anna grew up at a breakfast table where palliative care was already a conversation; her father trained under Dame Cicely Saunders in London, and that early exposure shaped a career built around listening fir
Living Longer, Living Better: A GP's Perspective (opens the original)
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Why Palliative Care Isn't a White Flag Dr Conor Mitchell is a GP partner at Bayview Family Practice in Ballyshannon, GP lead for CHO Sligo South Donegal, and a long-time collaborator with North West Hospice. In this conversation he offers a warm, practical GP's-eye view of palliative care, dismantling the idea that it only belongs at the very end of life. Conor speaks about the dual carriageway of treatment and palliative approach running side by side, the importance of having your GP rather tha
At Home With Care: A Public Health Nurse's View (opens the original)
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Supporting People to Stay Where They Feel Themselves Regina Henry is a public health nurse who has spent her career in community care, walking alongside people from newborns through to end of life. In this conversation she speaks about the quiet, layered work of supporting someone to stay in their own home — coordinating the team, noticing the small losses, easing the load on family carers, and respecting that the patient must always be at the centre. Regina describes the public health nurse as
Living Well, Day by Day: An OT's Perspective (opens the original)
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Dignity, Independence and Everyday Living Aoiffe McCarroll is a senior occupational therapist with over twenty years of experience across oncology, haematology and palliative care, now dedicated full-time to the inpatient unit at North West Hospice. In this conversation she dismantles the idea that OT is only about discharge planning or equipment lists. Aoiffe speaks about meeting people in the ordinary moments of a day — getting dressed, having a cup of tea, planting a window box, attending a g
Small Movements, Big Meaning (opens the original)
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Rehabilitation, Independence and Everyday Joy Lynn O'Connor is a chartered physiotherapist with 25 years of clinical experience, now working full-time in palliative care at North West Hospice. In this conversation, she pulls apart the misconception that physiotherapy is only about sports injuries and recovery to full function. Lynn explains how physio in a palliative setting is really about meeting people where they are, breaking the things they love into bite-sized pieces, and giving people per
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