- Adults with Incapacity Act
- 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
Poster Parade 2024
The SPPC Palliative Care Poster Parade is an online collection of posters showcasing best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.
You can view all the posters below.
Derek Doyle Poster Prizewinners
Each year, the Derek Doyle Poster Prize is awarded to the poster that gets the most public votes in the SPPC Poster Parade Read about the winners here: Poster Prizewinners.
Palliative Care Poster Parade
01. A Palliative Care Virtual Ward – A viable, safe, supportive alternative to dying in a hospice click here
02. ‘A Walk with Absent Friends’ A collaborative public art installation on loss, death, and care click here
03. Addressing Terminal Agitation: A multidisciplinary approach to enhancing patient care and team support click here
04. An audit of anticipatory care planning in patients with advanced liver disease and an investigation into the effects of having an advanced liver disease multi-disciplinary meeting on anticipatory care planning click here
05. An innovative approach to develop and offer a training programme across services and boundaries based on what matters to service users, carers and staff click here
06. An innovative, equitable approach to improve awareness of and access to supportive and palliative services and digital resources based on what matters to service users, carers and staff across Ayrshire and Arran click here
07. Bridging Cultural Divides in Palliative Care: A Framework for Shared Decision-Making and Care Ethics in a Resource-Constrained Environment click here
08. COMFRT at end of life in ICU - saving other lives and giving hope click here
09. Compassionate communication in palliative and end-of-life care workshops for community telecare-alarm responders click here
10. Conducting a Phase III Clinical Trial in a Hospice Environment click here
11. Creating, nurturing and sustaining service improvement in Scotland's hospitals in the shadow of austerity click here
12. Critical Junctures: when children and families need CHAS most click here
13. De-Prescribing in Palliative Care: A Quality Improvement Approach at University Hospital Monklands click here
14. Deprescribing in Palliative Care at the Ayrshire Hospice click here
15. Dundee Enhanced Community Palliative Care Project click here
16. EASE: The Story So Far click here
17. Effect of Palliative Care Education on the Palliative Care Knowledge of Newly Qualified Medical Doctors in Nigeria click here
18. End of Life Medication Administration by Scottish Ambulance Service Clinicians click here
19. Evaluating anticipatory care documentation for palliative patients discharged from hospital to home at two NHS GGC sites; a large teaching hospital and a district general hospital click here
20. Exploring Community Nurses’ lived experiences and perceptions of ‘preparedness’ to provide palliative and end of life care in rural Scotland: a qualitative study protocol click here
21. Exploring the impact of Community Connection for those who have been Bereaved click here
22. Extending Future Care Planning across Health and Social Care click here
23. Generalist Palliative Medicine in NHS Tayside click here
24. Giving yourself loving kindness click here
25. "Greetin' for a wee bawbee”: Embracing Scottish Heritage within Music Therapy in a Palliative Care Setting click here
26. Growing up in palliative care – is there a prescription for transition? click here
27. Heart Failure: Getting to the heart of ‘What Matters to You’ Conversations click here
28. “Here’s My Number, Call Me Maybe?” Developing a Specialist Palliative Care Telephone Advice Line for Healthcare Professionals click here
29. Hospital Palliative Care Team Referrals for People with Advanced Liver Disease click here
30. “I just want to be me”: End of life care for trans and gender diverse communities click here
31. Improving oral care for those with frailty and life limiting illness: A quality improvement project in a Hospice and Acute Hospital Medicine for the Elderly setting click here
32. Inequalities faced by prisoners in the UK in relation to their access to palliative care click here
33. Influencing a restorative culture through the embedding of Resilience Based Clinical Supervision at St Columba's Hospice Care click here
34. Inverclyde Macmillan Improving the Cancer Journey – Community Based Approach click here
35. Launch of the new Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines website and mobile application click here
36. Let’s Talk about OSCaRS click here
37. “Living Matters Now”: Improving transitional care for young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions click here
38. Longer term feasibility of an online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention to promote palliative care staff well-being click here
39. Making SENSE of End of Life Care click here
40. More Than The Last Breath click here
41. Music and movement for people with Parkinson’s disease and their carers: A Dalcroze Eurhythmics pilot study within a hospice environment click here
42. Out with the old and in with the new: transforming community palliative care prescribing and administration of medicines in Tayside click here
43. Palliative care delivery - An ambulance service journey click here
44. Palliative care education for Clinical Fellows - an unmet need click here
45. Palliative Care Research in Fife: developing an evidence base for improved policy, practice and care through collaboration and action click here
46. Partnership Working - Developing Knowledge and Creating a Community of Practice in Palliative and End of Life Care for Paramedics - Scottish Ambulance Service and Marie Curie click here
47. Practitioner perspectives on the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for bereavement support click here
48. Quality of Care – Percentage of time spent at Home or in a Community Setting and Location of Death across Scotland click here
49. Realistic Conversations webinars in NHSGGC click here
50. Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) Evaluations and Future Steps click here
51. Renfrewshire Bereavement Network click here
52. Review of dietitian service within the Pelvic Radiation Disease (PRD) late effects clinic click here
53. Role of MacMillan’s Improving the Cancer Journey in supporting people at end of life click here
54. St Columba’s Hospice Access Team: traversing routes into evolving hospice care services click here
55. The Emotion Labyrinth click here
56. The hand that touches the Patient - Teaching professional carers using a Standardised Framework click here
57. The Impact of a Supportive Care service for patients with Interstital Lung Disease click here
58. Tri service development in Last Aid click here
59. Truacanta: Scotland’s Compassionate Community Project click here
60. Urgent Home Visiting Team click here
61. Using an adapted Shadowbox technique to teach healthcare staff how to manage a patient with end-of-life care needs: A blueprint for educators click here
62. What are the experiences, perceptions and educational needs of registered nurses to allow them to provide nurse led end-of-life care in an in-patient hospice setting? An extended literature review click here
63. What to expect and what is expected!: A competency framework for Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialists in Palliative Care click here
64. Who is more death literate – bus drivers or students? A pilot of the Death Literacy Index in Scotland click here
65. Who’s calling? Evaluation of a Specialist Palliative Care 24/7 Telephone Advice Service click here
