All Outputs (7)

Impact of the Macmillan specialist Care at Home service: a mixed methods evaluation across six sites (2018)
Journal Article
Johnston, B., Patterson, A., Bird, L., Wilson, E., Almack, K., Mathews, G., & Seymour, J. (2018). Impact of the Macmillan specialist Care at Home service: a mixed methods evaluation across six sites. BMC Palliative Care, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-018-0281-9

Background: The Midhurst Macmillan Specialist Palliative Care at Home Service was founded in 2006 to improve community-based palliative care provision. Principal components include; early referral; home-based clinical interventions; close partnershi... Read More about Impact of the Macmillan specialist Care at Home service: a mixed methods evaluation across six sites.

The Oxford handbook of ethics at the end of life, edited by S. J. Younger and R. M. Arnold, New York, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 447, £97 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-997441-2 [Book review] (2017)
Journal Article
Wilson, E. (in press). The Oxford handbook of ethics at the end of life, edited by S. J. Younger and R. M. Arnold, New York, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 447, £97 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-997441-2 [Book review]. Mortality, 23(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2017.1353487

The importance of interdisciplinary communication in the process of anticipatory prescribing (2017)
Journal Article
Wilson, E., & Seymour, J. (2017). The importance of interdisciplinary communication in the process of anticipatory prescribing. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 23(3), 129-135. https://doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2017.23.3.129

In the UK there has been a widespread introduction of ‘anticipatory prescribing’ in community based palliative care. This involves general practitioners (GPs) writing prescriptions in anticipation of them being needed and has been encouraged to try t... Read More about The importance of interdisciplinary communication in the process of anticipatory prescribing.

Anticipatory prescribing for end of life care in the community: a survey of community nurses in England (2016)
Journal Article
Wilson, E., & Seymour, J. (2016). Anticipatory prescribing for end of life care in the community: a survey of community nurses in England. Primary Health Care, 26(9), 22-27. https://doi.org/10.7748/phc.2016.e1151

Anticipatory prescribing is increasingly common in the UK, yet little is known about nurses’ roles in the process. As part of a wider study to explore this, a postal survey of 575 community/district, nursing home and palliative care nurses was undert... Read More about Anticipatory prescribing for end of life care in the community: a survey of community nurses in England.

Care and communication between health professionals and patients affected by severe or chronic illness in community care settings: a qualitative study of care at the end of life (2015)
Journal Article
Pollock, K., & Wilson, E. (2015). Care and communication between health professionals and patients affected by severe or chronic illness in community care settings: a qualitative study of care at the end of life. Health Services and Delivery Research, 3(31), https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr03310

Background: Advance care planning (ACP) enables patients to consider, discuss and, if they wish, document their wishes and preferences for future care, including decisions to refuse treatment, in the event that they lose capacity to make decisions fo... Read More about Care and communication between health professionals and patients affected by severe or chronic illness in community care settings: a qualitative study of care at the end of life.

Anticipatory prescribing in end-of-life care (2014)
Journal Article
Wilson, E., Seymour, J. E., Morbey, H., Payne, S., Brown, J., & Seale, C. (2014). Anticipatory prescribing in end-of-life care. Nursing Times, 110(44),

Anticipatory prescriptions are often issued by GPs for patients nearing the end of life, ahead of symptoms they may experience. These prescriptions are often activated by nurses. This article summarises a study investigating nurses’ experiences of us... Read More about Anticipatory prescribing in end-of-life care.

Applying a healthcare model to Huntington's disease: the key worker approach (2014)
Journal Article
Wilson, E., Aubeeluck, A., & Pollock, K. (2014). Applying a healthcare model to Huntington's disease: the key worker approach. British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 10(5), https://doi.org/10.12968/bjnn.2014.10.5.214

This paper follows on from an overview of the literature and current policy for Huntington’s disease (HD) published by the BJNN (Wilson et al. 2014). The previous paper highlighted a paucity of knowledge in terms of best practice available for those... Read More about Applying a healthcare model to Huntington's disease: the key worker approach.