Partnership publications

Report of the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care Big Lottery Fund Project: 'Increasing access to palliative care for people with life-threatening conditions other than cancer'.

This report makes a series of 18 recommendations to improve access to palliative care for people with life-threatening conditions other than cancer. Based on the results of a nationwide consultation process, it identifies some of the common palliative care needs of people with specific non-malignant progressive conditions, sets out some of the barriers involved in accessing appropriate palliative care, and identifies some of the possible ways of overcoming these barriers and meeting needs.

Analysis of consultation responses led to the development and piloting of a palliative care study day designed to meet the identified education needs of generic health and social care professionals. It also led to the development of an information support checklist to help NHS Boards, Community Health Partnerships, local authority areas and others ensure that the identified information support needs of people with life-threatening conditions other than cancer and informal carers are met. Details of both these are available to download here.

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