Kristian Pollock

TL;DR: The research showed that patients valued written information that was tailored to their individual circumstances and illness, and that contained a balance of harm and benefit information, and there is a gap between currently provided leaflets and information which patients would value and find more useful.

TL;DR: The need for good communication based on professional awareness of how parents understand and experience their child's illness is highlighted, as well as the importance of sensitively individualising information provision to parents' needs so as to address their requirements but not to unnecessarily increase their anxiety or insecurity.

TL;DR: It is argued that stress is not something naturally occurring in the world, but a manufactured concept which has by now become a 'social fact' and has direct implications for the ways in which people perceive their world and act within it.

TL;DR: Research on the role and value of written medicines information for patients from the perspective of patients and health professionals is reviewed.

TL;DR: The current orthodoxy is that home is the best and preferred place of death for most people but Kristian Pollock questions these assumptions and calls for greater attention to improving the experience of dying in hospital and elsewhere.