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00:00I got together with Marie, Graeme and Carla who are the end-of-life nurses here at Medway
00:04and we did a pilot for six months on Tennyson in 2020 during the first wave of Covid and I
00:13for six months and I would assess the patients before and after a namaste care session
00:18and we saw with our dementia patients they were less irritated, their fluid intake was better,
00:23they weren't wandering as much which reduces the risk of falls so from 2020 until 2023 was
00:31me working very hard with the end-of-life team to create the namaste care practitioner role.
00:36We're the first hospital in the world to have a namaste care practitioner, it's been successfully
00:42implemented in care homes and hospices but we're the first hospital to have an official role.