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Winners of the Derek Doyle Poster Prize

The Palliative Care Poster Parade 2022 featured 55 posters, showcasing a huge variety of work from across Scotland. Each year, the Derek Doyle Poster Prize is awarded to the poster that gets the most public votes.

As many people will know Derek was a key figure in Scotland, the UK and globally in the development of palliative care – instrumental in establishing palliative medicine as a speciality, first chair of the Association for Palliative Medicine, first Vice-Chairman of the European Association for Palliative Care and a founding member of the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care.

This year's winners were:

1st: Patient, Family and Staff Experience of the ReSPECT Process

By Cara Finlay – 4th Year Medical Student, University of Dundee and Morag MacRae – Patient Safety Development Manager, NHS Tayside (Pictured above)

2^nd No Time to Lose: Addressing the housing needs of people with MND

By Susan Webster, MND Scotland.

3^rd The power of storytelling: building up a team mindset to tell the Hospice story

By Ailsa Herd, Communications Manager, Strathcarron Hospice

A recording of the Poster Parade Event is available here: Poster Parade Event

Photo: Ellie Salter, Cara Finlay, Morag Macrae.