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Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care Annual Conference:
Thursday 30 August 2007

Please click on the links below to view the PowerPoint presentations given at the above conference:

Morning session - Planning for Palliative Care in 2027:

Dr Harry Burns (the vision)
Alex Davidson (the partnerships)
Derek Feeley (the process)

Afternoon session - The shape of things to come:

Professor Marie Fallon - the acute sector
Dr Euan Paterson - the patient's home
Belinda Dewar - the care home
Dr David Carroll - community hospitals
Maria McGill - hospices & specialist palliative care units
Gillian Knowles and Claire Tester - supported self care and self management at end of life
Professor David Godden - remote monitoring and e-health
Dr Bridget Johnston - patient experience research

Please click on the links below to view the posters presented at the conference:

Advanced Heart Failure and Palliaitive Care (Diane Loughlin)
Coming Full Circle - Implementing the Liverpool Care Pathway in a hospice setting (Julie Watson, Kim Donaldson, Vicky Hill and Evelyn Howie)
Palliative Care Progress in NHS Forth Valley (Derek Blues)
Preferred Place of Care in Cancer Patients (reviewed by DA Sives, SA Murray and M Cornbleet)
Supporting the development of a multi professional approach to the assessment of breathlessness (Alison McNeil)
The Ayrshire Hospice End of Life Pathway (Keith Grant, Ann Fullerton, Fiona Evans, Susan Campbell and Miriam Tadjali)
The development of an educational package for ‘Pharmaceutical Care of people requiring palliative care’ in NHS Scotland (A Watson, AM McGregor, J Trundle, A Macrobbie, A Scott-Aiton)
The primary care based palliaitive care education project 2004 -2007 (Dr David Carroll and Sally Lawton)
The relative strengths of individual counselling and groupwork with bereaved clients – therapists’ views (Chris Vlasto)
Volunteering in the Ayrshire Hospice (Hilary Denholm)