Palliative Care Journal Digest

The Monday Clinical Brief is a weekly palliative care journal digest, curated by a serving NHS consultant in the specialty. Every Monday it sends every new peer-reviewed paper published that week in palliative care's five leading journals — summarised in plain language, formatted for CPD, for £20 a year. Here is what it covers and why it exists.

Palliative care evidence moves fast. Symptom management protocols, opioid titration guidelines, advance care planning frameworks, and the evidence base for early specialist referral have all changed materially in the last five years. Most practising clinicians haven't had time to keep up. I built The Monday Clinical Brief because I was one of them.

Every Monday morning, we send palliative care clinicians every new peer-reviewed paper published that week in the specialty's five leading journals.

Concise summaries. Links to the originals. Nothing else.

Journals we cover

Each week we draw from the highest-impact palliative care journals, including:

• BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
• Journal of Palliative Medicine
• Supportive Care in Cancer
• Palliative Medicine
• Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Papers are selected for clinical applicability to NHS practice. Bench research and papers with no near-term practice relevance are excluded.

A free sample

Before you subscribe, have a look at an example of a recent palliative care digest — no sign-up required.

Read a free sample issue →

You'll see the format, the depth of summary, and the journals we draw from. You can sign up for a four-week free trial and the subscription is only £20 a year after that.

Subscribe

Start your four-week free trial with Palliative Care selected as your specialty. The digest arrives every Monday at 7am. You can read it over coffee before the week starts.

The Monday Clinical Brief covers 31 medical specialties. If you work across more than one area, additional specialties can be added for £5/year each.