The 2014 Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care Annual Conference, Choices and Decisions Towards the End of Life took place on 17th September and attracted 250 delegates. The full programme for the day is available here.
This article in eHospice gives an excellent overview of the conference: eHospice article
Poster displays are available here: poster presentations.
Plenary speaker presentations and workshop slides are available below.
Prof Jason Leitch, Clinical Director, The Quality Unit, Scottish Government
Scotland’s Patient Safety Programme has a growing international reputation. What are the keys to its success and how can similar approaches also make the NHS more compassionate?
PowerPoint slides available here.
Contributors will include: Helen Jamieson, Head of Media Relations, Wellcome Trust, Dr Deans Buchanan, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, NHS Tayside, Prof Bridget Johnson, Professor of Palliative and Supportive Care, University of Nottingham and Prof Craig White, Divisional Clinical Lead, Quality Unit, Scottish Government. The session will include lay / public voices.
As the LCP is phased out, what lessons have we learned - about the media, about public expectations, about the health and care system, about providing care and about ourselves? Brief presentation from different perspectives will punctuate an exploration of these questions, with a panel and opportunity for delegate questions, opinions and polling.
The following PowerPoint slides are available:
Dr Paul Baughan, GP, Dollar Health Centre, Forth Valley Macmillan GP Lead, Cancer and Palliative Care, and Co-Chair Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines Project
Dr David Gray, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, ACCORD Hospice and NHS GG&C, and Co-Chair Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines Project
Produced through a nationwide collaboration, the Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines are designed to be an accessible, practical support to generalists in all settings who are striving to deliver best practice care. This session marked completion of the new guidelines and outlined approaches for successful implementation.
Powerpoint slides available here.
Prof Carl Thompson and Dr Kate Flemming, University of York
Using a mixture of theoretical framework and case study this talk will explore how, in clinical practice, we deal with uncertainty, exercise judgement and make decisions, including some common pitfalls and top tips.
PowerPoint slides available here.
Rebecca Patterson, Policy and Communications Manager, Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care
A brief introduction to To Absent Friends, a new initiative by the Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief alliance, including a screening of a short film.
Dr Sally Lawton, Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care (Nursing), NHS Grampian
In September 1914, during the Battle of Aisne, the first trenches were dug in France. On the centenary of that event, this talk will reflect on lessons, parallels and echoes of the Great War.
Dr Sally Boa, Talking Mats and Strathcarron Hospice
Goal setting with patients is often recommended as a mechanism to achieve high quality patient-centred care. However, this seemingly straightforward activity is often challenging to deliver in practice. This talk will describe award-winning research into a practical intervention.
PowerPoint slides available here.
This workshop featured brief rapid fire presentations from around Scotland. A chance to hear about, and to share, work-in-progress on improving care in the last days and hours of life.
The following PowerPoint slides available:
Rebecca Patterson, Policy and Communications Manager, Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care
An initiative of Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief, To Absent Friends was created out of a desire to address some of the social isolation experienced by people who have been bereaved. Held for the first time from 1-7 November 2014, To Absent Friends will give people across Scotland an excuse to remember, to tell stories, to celebrate and to reminisce about people they love who have died.
This was a practical workshop for anyone who is limited by time and resources but wants to be involved in To Absent Friends this November.
PowerPoint slides available here.
How Highland Hospice is planning to integrate the arts throughout its work, from buildings to care.
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