Lien Centre for Palliative Care

Lien Centre for Palliative Care The Lien Centre for Palliative Care (LCPC) is a leading palliative care research and education centre

The Lien Centre is established by Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (“Duke-NUS”) in collaboration with the Lien Foundation with active involvement from National Cancer Centre Singapore and Singapore Health Services. The Lien Centre is a research and education centre of Duke-NUS and under the purview of the Duke-NUS Academic & Research Committee (“ARC”).

🌏 Can palliative care coaching cross cultures?❤️ Living with heart failure can bring complex challenges for patients and...
09/09/2026

🌏 Can palliative care coaching cross cultures?

❤️ Living with heart failure can bring complex challenges for patients and caregivers. ENABLE, a nurse-led palliative care health coaching model developed in the US, may help—but how does it translate to the Singapore context?

🔍 We explored this through interviews with 28 patients, caregivers and healthcare clinicians, identifying key considerations around coping, coaching and programme delivery.

💡 From culturally sensitive conversations to multilingual resources and flexible delivery, our findings highlight why cultural adaptation goes beyond translation.

🔗 Read the full article to find out more — link in the comments!

📖 BMC Palliative Care

✍️Shirlyn Hui-Shan Neo , Jasmine Yun-Ting Tan, Eve Seraphina Low, Guozhang Lee, David Sim , Grace Yang , J. Nicholas Odom , Marie Bakitas , Sungwon Yoon

🌟 Celebrating the Educators Advancing Palliative Care 📚 As we celebrate Teacher’s Day on 4 September 2026, we would like...
04/09/2026

🌟 Celebrating the Educators Advancing Palliative Care

📚 As we celebrate Teacher’s Day on 4 September 2026, we would like to take a moment to appreciate the incredible teaching faculty, speakers and facilitators who contribute to LCPC’s education programmes.

💙 Thank you for generously sharing your knowledge, experience and time with our learners. From preparing thoughtful content and engaging discussions to creating meaningful learning experiences, your efforts help us advance a shared goal: equipping healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills to provide compassionate, person-centred care to patients and families with serious illness.

🤝 And education is never the work of just those at the front of the classroom. To everyone who contributes behind the scenes — preparing materials, coordinating programmes, supporting logistics and making sure everything comes together — thank you for the work that often goes unseen but makes learning possible.

🌱 To all our teaching faculty, speakers, facilitators and education partners, thank you for being an integral part of the LCPC learning community. We appreciate all that you do, seen and unseen.

Happy Teacher’s Day!

🩺 After the Trauma: What Happens When Patients Go Home?Surviving a major trauma is only the beginning. For older, high-r...
28/08/2026

🩺 After the Trauma: What Happens When Patients Go Home?

Surviving a major trauma is only the beginning. For older, high-risk trauma survivors and their caregivers, the journey after hospital discharge can bring uncertainty, repeated hospitalisations and a significant impact on quality of life.

A mixed-methods longitudinal study of 155 older blunt trauma survivors and their caregivers identified five key unmet needs:

🔹 Uncertainty about prognosis
🔹 Access to financial support
🔹 Unaddressed social needs
🔹 Inconsistent access to healthcare
🔹 Inadequate structural support

📉 Patients with more unplanned readmissions, greater comorbidity and poorer function experienced lower quality of life. Caregivers of patients with frequent readmissions also faced increasing financial stress over time.

💡 The takeaway: Recovery doesn't end at discharge. Earlier identification of high-risk patients and coordinated support across the post-trauma journey could help patients and caregivers navigate uncertainty and improve their quality of life.

📝 Wong, T.H., Mohamad, H., Maulod, A. et al

📖 Scientific Reports

🔗 Read the full article for more — link in the comments!

💙 From Ideas to Action: The Making of COMPASS 🤔 What goes into creating a course that supports healthcare professionals ...
25/08/2026

💙 From Ideas to Action: The Making of COMPASS

🤔 What goes into creating a course that supports healthcare professionals caring for patients with serious illness in the primary care setting?

💬 It starts with collaboration, conversation and a shared commitment to better care.

Behind COMPASS: COMpassionate Primary pAlliative and Supportive Care for Serious Illnesses is a dedicated workgroup of clinicians and educators who came together to identify key learning needs, discuss real-world challenges and shape practical content for the primary care setting.

For Dr Michelle Chng, Workgroup Co-Chairperson and Associate Consultant, Family Physician, SingHealth Polyclinics, the course is designed to be “illuminating and hopefully, empowering for our primary care healthcare providers.”

Another of our workgroup members, Ms Nur Hazwinah Binte Mohamadan, Senior Staff Nurse, SingHealth Polyclinics (Outram), described the experience as “eye-opening”, highlighting how the course makes palliative care concepts practical and relatable for everyday primary care consultations.

🌱 COMPASS is now live!

If you work in primary care and want to strengthen your knowledge and confidence in providing palliative and supportive care for people living with serious illness, we invite you to join us on this learning journey.

👉 Find out more on our website — link in the comments!

And there's more to come! A physical COMPASS workshop is also planned for 2027, with details to be announced.

Stay tuned for updates, and we hope to see you at COMPASS!

📧You’ve got mail!Subject: Do Nudges Enhance Goals of Care Discussions?🚨Goals of care discussions (GOCDs) are critical fo...
24/08/2026

📧You’ve got mail!

Subject: Do Nudges Enhance Goals of Care Discussions?

🚨Goals of care discussions (GOCDs) are critical for patients with serious illnesses but are hindered by clinician-level barriers.

🔔Nudges—low-burden, behaviourally informed strategies that influence clinician behaviour without restricting choice—may provide a scalable approach to increase GOCDs.

📋We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis on the effect of clinician-directed nudges on GOCD documentation.

🔗Read the full article to find out more— link in the comments!

📕 Age and Ageing

✍️ Louisa Poco, Shimoni Shah, Chetna Malhotra

📢 Calling all healthcare professionals looking to deepen your knowledge in palliative care!🔔Presenting LCPC’s 2027 Cours...
21/08/2026

📢 Calling all healthcare professionals looking to deepen your knowledge in palliative care!

🔔Presenting LCPC’s 2027 Course Calendar!

If you are interested in courses led by an experienced interdisciplinary team across care settings, look no further!

🔗Head to our website for more details— link in the comments!

🌟Introducing LCPC’s newest course:
COMPASS: Compassionate Primary Palliative and Supportive Care for Serious Illness (e-Learning)

🔔 Registration open:
Renal Supportive Care Course 2026 (Oct run)

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at [email protected]

🤔“Are there any LCPC courses for the Primary Care setting?”— one of the most popular questions we get asked.🌟We are thri...
20/08/2026

🤔“Are there any LCPC courses for the Primary Care setting?”— one of the most popular questions we get asked.

🌟We are thrilled to finally share the good news!

🧭Introducing COMPASS: Compassionate Primary Palliative and Supportive Care for Serious Illness

The first fully online Primary Palliative Care course for Primary Care Healthcare Professionals in Singapore and the region!

📋Course Details:

✅Fully online and self-paced learning
✅Immediate access to the course upon successful registration
✅Gain access to the materials for one month upon enrollment

⌛Estimated duration for completion: 2 hours

That’s not all!

🔔This course is eligible for PC2 Training Award by SHC.

Registered doctors who are Singapore Citizens and currently in active primary care practice can claim the nett amount payable from PC2 Training Award.

📢If you are a healthcare professional in the primary care setting, you will not want to miss this one!

🔗Find out more on our website— link in the comments!

⚠️P.S. Stay tuned for the COMPASS Workshop happening in 2027 (details will be released next year)

🎉 Registration Opens: Renal Supportive Care Course Oct 2026!📣 After a fruitful run in 2026, we’re excited to announce th...
19/08/2026

🎉 Registration Opens: Renal Supportive Care Course Oct 2026!

📣 After a fruitful run in 2026, we’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the Oct 2026 intake of the Renal Supportive Care Course (RSC) — Singapore’s first and only interprofessional course.

📅 E-learning: 22 Sep – 23 Oct 2026
👥 Face-to-face teaching sessions: 7 – 9 Oct 2026, 8.00am – 5.00pm

🌟If you are a healthcare professional looking to be equipped in caring for patients with advanced Chronic Kidney Disease, this is your chance!

🔗Register and find out more on our website— link in the comments!

📢Secure your seat, registration ends on 4 Sep, Friday!

🧠 How do we better assess disease severity in people living with severe dementia?Accurate assessment is essential for de...
05/08/2026

🧠 How do we better assess disease severity in people living with severe dementia?

Accurate assessment is essential for delivering quality care and advancing research—but not all tools perform equally well.

Our study found that BANS-6, a streamlined version of the Bedford Alzheimer Nursing-Severity Scale, outperformed both the original BANS and the commonly used FAST scale in assessing severe dementia among community-dwelling individuals.

🔍 Key findings:
✅ More reliable and psychometrically robust than the original BANS
✅ Better predicts important clinical outcomes, including pneumonia, eating difficulties, malnutrition, pressure sores, and tube feeding
✅ FAST showed limited ability to predict clinical outcomes in severe dementia

These findings suggest that less can be more—a shorter, refined assessment tool may provide greater clinical value and support better care for people living with severe dementia.

📝 Chin Yee Cheong, Philip Yap, Tze Pin Ng, Boon Yeow Tan, Chetna Malhotra

📖 International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

🔗 Read the full article for more — link in the comments!

"What comes to mind when you think of palliative care?"📋Last week, we put this question to our social media community. T...
04/08/2026

"What comes to mind when you think of palliative care?"

📋Last week, we put this question to our social media community.

The most common responses were:
• End-of-life care
• Improving quality of life

These responses reflect the different ways people understand palliative care.

🔎We were curious to explore different perspectives on this very topic. Thus began our conversation with 3 of LCPC’s Research Assistants in a new series— LCPC Stories: From the Ground.

🫀Our Senior Research Assistants work on a variety of studies covering topics from end stage renal failure, heart failure and advanced cancer to paediatric palliative care and advance care planning (ACP).

▶️ Swipe through the slides to read what they had to say.

💬Which perspective resonates with you most? Let us know in the comments.

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