- SPPC Submissions to Parliament on the Assisted Dying Bill
- SPPC's draft response to the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill
- Assisted Dying Bill Published
- Assisted Dying Bill
- Winners of the Derek Doyle Poster Prize
Our work
We undertake a varied range of work, all with the overarching objective of improving people’s experiences of living with declining health, death, dying and bereavement in Scotland. If you want to know more, think we might be able to help you, or have any ideas for something we should work on then please get in touch!
The story of our work and achievements during 2023-24 can be downloaded here.
SPPC's workplan for 2024-25 can be downloaded here.
SPPC's Annual Accounts for 2023-24 can be downloaded here.
Delivering Our Strategy
In 2024 SPPC reviewed how it had performed in relation to its strategic objectives over the preceding 6 years. As part of that review we surveyed our members and stakeholders. Of respondents to the survey:
- 80% felt that SPPC advocate/argues for the things which they feel are important
- 77% said that SPPC helps them to fell well informed about relevant research, effective practice and innovation, and opportunities for collaboration with others
- 75% said that SPPC is relevant and useful to the challenges they face
Specific comments included:
"SPPC is a fantastic organisation and a credit to Scotland in helping lead the way on Palliative Care. Their skill in bringing people together is hugely needed and they serve as important stewards of the National work and response to palliative care requirements."
"The SPPC is the conduit for effective change across Scotland to benefit those with palliative and end of life care needs as well as those who care for them, professionally or informally."
"The SPPC deals with and supports people deal with unique aspects of our lives when facing the emotional rollercoaster of death and bereavement. Their work is very valuable to so many."
Outputs delivered by and through the SPPC include:
- A monthly ebulletin providing a digest of relevant policy, practice, research and other news to around 3000 inboxes each month.
- The Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines.
- Establishment and facilitation of the Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief alliance which provides practical resources and promotes advance planning and supportive behaviours around death, dying and loss.
- Initiation of the annual To Absent Friends festival, which tackles isolation linked to bereavement.
- Annual Conferences
- The ground-breaking End of Life Aid Skills for Everyone public education course.
- The Truacanta Project which worked alongside 5 communities to nurture locally-led action on caring, dying and loss.
- The Building on the Best Scotland project which aimed to improve palliative care in hospitals across Scotland. This included establishing the Scottish Network for Acute Palliative Care (SNAPC).
- Facilitation of annual Demystifing Death Weeks, supporting individuals and organisations to identify and address local issues.
- Responses to numerous Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament policy and legislative consultations of relevance to palliative care.
- A Bereavement-Friendly Workplaces Toolkit and Employer Bereavement Charter Mark scheme.
