Reading Time: 4 minutes This is the second in a series of three blog articles from Session 7 – Perspectives: Lessons from COVID-19 in which we heard from different speakers about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their own experiences of clinical trials, research, and support within the MND community. A further blog, written by Bruce Virgo who is…
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog is part of the ‘Points from Perth’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content from some of the talks and posters presented at the 30th International Symposium on ALS/MND in Perth. All presentations have a code beginning with ‘C’ followed by a number (e.g. C50). This will help you locate…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Today we announced the results of an exciting new funding partnership with Marie Curie. Together we will be co-funding three research grants that help to answer some questions that people with MND identified as a priority for end of life care research. This is the first time that the MND Association and Marie Curie have…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today an exciting announcement was made about three organisations working together to increase our knowledge on the best way to provide palliative and end of life care. The MND Association and the Chief Scientists Office in Scotland (CSO) will be working with Marie Curie on a new research call. In addition to a £1million funding pot…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a fitting start to a new year, the results of the Palliative and End of Life Care Priority Setting Partnership top 10 priorities for research were released today. The topics range from: the best way to get out of hours palliative care, how to provide palliative care for everyone irrespective of where they live…
Reading Time: 4 minutes I wanted to write a ReCCoB blog about the Holistic Care and Quality of Life session, which is closely related to my interests, not least because I was due to present my work in the session. The session opened with a talk from Dr Frank Brennan giving an overview of the role of palliative care…
