Cross Party Group Meeting, 11 June 2008: (incorporating the AGM 2008)

Professor Henry J Dargie, Director, Scottish Advanced Heart Failure Service, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow and Andy Carver, Prevention and Care Advisor, British Heart Foundation, Scotland introduced the recent publication from the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care. British Heart Foundation Scotland and the Scottish Government.

Presentations were given by Dr Martin Leiper, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Roxburghe House, Dundee and Chairman of the Working Group and Dr Chris Ward, Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee.

• Dr Leiper - presentation
• Dr Ward - presentation

Suzanne Wood, Policy Advisor, Standards & Ethics Team at General Medical Council (GMC) gave a presentation about their new guidance Consent: Patients and Doctors Making Decisions Together

• Suzanne Woods - presentation
• GMC Consent_guidance

Meeting Papers

• Approved minute - 05 March 2008
• Appendix 1 - EOLC briefing
• Appendix 2 - Education Standard Presentation
• Paper 1 - AGM 2008 Agenda
• Paper 2 - Approved minute of AGM 6 June 2007
• Paper 3a - Approved Annual Return 2007-2008
• Paper 3b - Approved accounts 2007-2008