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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 - 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

Poster Abstracts of the Month: June

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:

  • COMFRT at end of life in ICU - saving other lives and giving hope click here
  • Compassionate communication in palliative and end-of-life care workshops for community telecare-alarm responders click here
  • Conducting a Phase III Clinical Trial in a Hospice Environment click here
  • Creating, nurturing and sustaining service improvement in Scotland's hospitals in the shadow of austerity click here
  • Critical Junctures: when children and families need CHAS most click here
  • De-Prescribing in Palliative Care: A Quality Improvement Approach at University Hospital Monklands click here
  • Deprescribing in Palliative Care at the Ayrshire Hospice click here
  • Dundee Enhanced Community Palliative Care Project click here

 

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