Cross Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Palliative Care
Convener: Michael McMahon MSP
Vice-Convener: Roseanna Cunningham MSP
Vice-Convener: Jamie McGrigor MSP
Secretary/Treasurer: Patricia Wallace, Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care
The Cross Party Group in the Scottish Parliament for Palliative Care provides an opportunity for MSPs from all parties, members of the public, and representatives from various organisations to meet and discuss a shared interest in palliative care. All are welcome to join or attend meetings of the Cross Party Group. If you are interested in attending, please e-mail: pauline@palliativecarescotland.org.uk
The Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care provides the secretariat for the Cross Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Palliative Care. Cross Party Groups are regulated by Section 6 of the Code of Conduct for Members of the Scottish Parliament. For more information about Cross Party Groups, see the Scottish Parliament website: www.scottish.parliament.uk/msp/crossPartyGroups
Date of next meeting:
Wednesday 7 January 2009 at 5.45 pm, Committee Room 4, Scottish Parliament Headquarters, Holyrood, Edinburgh EH99 1SP.
Papers for meeting:
Please click on the links below to access papers for meetings of the Cross Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Palliative Care.
Agenda - 7 January 2009
Unapproved minute of the Joint Cross Party Groups meeting - 8 October 2008
Appendix A - Dr Mhoira Leng's presentation
Appendix B - Professor Scott Murray's presentation
Unapproved minute of the Cross Party Group meeting - 11 June 2008
Appendix 1 - Dr Chris Ward's presentation
Appendix 2 - Dr Martin Leiper's presentation
Appendix 3 - Notes from heart failure presentation
Appendix 4 - GMC presentation - Consent: patents and doctors making decisions together
Appendix 5 - Notes from GMC presentation
8 October 2008: Joint meeting with the Cross Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on International Development
Dr Mhoira Leng, previously NHS Grampian, now Medical Director of Cairdeas International Palliative Care Trust, Aberdeen and Head of Palliative Care, Mulago Hospital and Makerere University, Kampala and Professor Scott Murray, St Columba’s Hospice Chair in Primary Palliative Care, the University of Edinburgh, who previously worked in rural Kenya will present on International perspectives on palliative care from economically developing countries
Appendix 1 - Dr Mhoira Leng's presentation
Appendix 2 - Professor Scott Murray's presentation
Agenda
Paper 1 - World hospice & palliative care day 2008.pdf
Paper 2 - Human rights declaration.pdf
Paper 3 - Suffering at the end of life.pdf
Paper 4 - Cairdeas briefing paper.pdf
Paper 5 - Dying in Kenya and in Lothian.pdf
Paper 6 - Malawi teaching palliative care.pdf
Paper 7 - A Shetland - Samara partnership.pdf
Paper 8 - Benefis to Scotland of International Health Partnerships
The UK contribution to increasing the number of health workers in Africa through supporting education and training
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
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
05 March 2008:
Agenda 05 March 2008
A presentation You’ve got the wrong the disease: COPD and Palliative Care Services was given by Andrew Powrie-Smith, Head of British Lung Foundation Scotland & Northern Ireland.
XPG presentation - BLF Scotland Mar 08
There was also a discussion led by Sharon Burton, Senor Policy Advisor, General Medical Council regarding the General Medical Council's review of its publication Withholding and Withdrawing Life-prolonging Treatments: Good Practice in Decision-making which was published in 2002.
Paper 1 - GMC Review
Annex 1 - GMC Review
5 December 2007:
Agenda 05 December 2007
A presentation The findings of the Macmillan Scotland-wide Lymphoedema Service Mapping Project was given by Margaret Sneddon, Head of the School of Nursing and Healthcare at the University of Glasgow.
XPG presentation - Lymphoedema Research Project 5 December 2007
Approved minute of the CPG meeting of 5 December 2007
Appendix 1a - MMC - letter to CMO 12 February 2007
Appendix 1b - MMC- reply from CMO 20 March 2007
26 September 2007:
Meeting to elect Office Bearers of the Cross Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Palliative Care.
Agenda 26 September 2007
Approved minute of the CPG meeting of 26 September 2007
6 June 2007 (incorporating the 2007 AGM):
Agenda 06 June 2007
Approved minute of the CPG meeting of 06 June 2007
A presentation Palliative and end of life care in Scotland: the case for a cohesive approach Report and recommendations submitted to the Scottish Executive May 2007 was given by Maria McGill, Chairman of the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care and Chief Executive of Highland Hospice.
XPG Presentation: palliative and end of life care in Scotland - the case for a cohesive approach
Unapproved minute of the AGM 06 June 2007
Paper 1: AGM 2007 Agenda
Paper 2: Approved minute of AGM 2006
Paper 3a: Approved annual return 2006-2007
Paper 3b: Approved accounts 2006-2007