- 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
Sharing Current Scottish Practice
This blog provides an opportunity for people to share examples of current Scottish palliative care practice that might be of interest to the palliative care community more widely. If you know of work underway that might be relevant for sharing on our website, please get in touch.
Poster Abstracts of the Month - November
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. All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few on our blog. This month we highlight these nine posters... click on the links to view the posters:
- Renfrewshire Bereavement Network click here
- Review of dietitian service within the Pelvic Radiation Disease (PRD) late effects clinic click here
- Role of MacMillan’s Improving the Cancer Journey in supporting people at end of life click here
- St Columba’s Hospice Access Team: traversing routes into evolving hospice care services click here
- The Emotion Labyrinth click here
- The hand that touches the Patient - Teaching professional carers using a Standardised Framework click here
- The Impact of a Supportive Care service for patients with Interstital Lung Disease click here
- Tri service development in Last Aid click here
- Truacanta: Scotland’s Compassionate Community Project click here
The SPPC blog is a space to share practice currently underway in Scotland. If you have practice you’d like to share, please get in touch.
Poster Abstracts of the Month - October
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. All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few in the the SPPC e-bulletin and in this blog. This month we highlight these nine posters... click on the links to view the posters:
- Out with the old and in with the new: transforming community palliative care prescribing and administration of medicines in Tayside click here
- Palliative care delivery - An ambulance service journey click here
- Palliative care education for Clinical Fellows - an unmet need click here
- Palliative Care Research in Fife: developing an evidence base for improved policy, practice and care through collaboration and action click here
- 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
- Practitioner perspectives on the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for bereavement support click here
- Quality of Care – Percentage of time spent at Home or in a Community Setting and Location of Death across Scotland click here
- Realistic Conversations webinars in NHSGGC click here
- Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) Evaluations and Future Steps click here
Poster abstracts of the month - September
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. All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few in the the SPPC e-bulletin and in this blog. This month we highlight these nine posters... click on the links to view the posters:
- Influencing a restorative culture through the embedding of Resilience Based Clinical Supervision at St Columba’s Hospice Care click here
- Inverclyde Macmillan Improving the Cancer Journey – Community Based Approach click here
- Launch of the new Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines website and mobile application click here
- Let’s Talk about OSCaRS click here
- “Living Matters Now”: Improving transitional care for young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions click here
- Longer term feasibility of an online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention to promote palliative care staff well-being click here
- Making SENSE of End of Life Care click here
- More Than The Last Breath click here
- Music and movement for people with Parkinson’s disease and their carers: A Dalcroze Eurhythmics pilot study within a hospice environment click here
Poster abstracts of the month - August
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. All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few in the the SPPC e-bulletin and in this blog. This month we highlight these nine posters:
- Giving yourself loving kindness click here
- “Greetin’ for a wee bawbee”: Embracing Scottish Heritage within Music Therapy in a Palliative Care Setting click here
- Growing up in palliative care – is there a prescription for transition? click here
- Heart Failure: Getting to the heart of ‘What Matters to You’ Conversations click here
- “Here’s My Number, Call Me Maybe?” Developing a Specialist Palliative Care Telephone Advice Line for Healthcare Professionals click here
- Hospital Palliative Care Team Referrals for People with Advanced Liver Disease click here
- “I just want to be me”: End of life care for trans and gender diverse communities click here
- 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
- Inequalities faced by prisoners in the UK in relation to their access to palliative care click here
Poster abstracts of the month - July
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. All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we'll highlight a few in the the SPPC e-bulletin and in this blog. This month we focus on:
- EASE: The Story So Far click here
- Effect of Palliative Care Education on the Palliative Care Knowledge of Newly Qualified Medical Doctors in Nigeria click here
- End of Life Medication Administration by Scottish Ambulance Service Clinicians click here
- 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
- 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
- Exploring the impact of Community Connection for those who have been Bereaved click here
- Extending Future Care Planning across Health and Social Care click here
- Generalist Palliative Medicine in NHS Tayside click here
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