- SPPC’s response to the Long Term Conditions Strategy Consultation
- SPPC Achievements 2024-25
- Annual Conference 2025: From System Holes to Whole System
- Call for Posters
- Assisted Dying Bill - Perspectives Informed by Palliative Care
News
Strategic Framework for Action
The Scottish Government has published a new Strategic Framework for Action for Palliative and End of Life Care. The Framework, an Executive Summary and a Supporting Evidence Summary can be downloaded here: weblink
National Care Standards - Draft Principles
The SPPC has submitted a response to the recent consultation on draft overarching principles for new National Care Standards.
The consultation was undertaken by the Care Inspectorate and Healthcare Improvement Scotland. The SPPC response can be viewed here: SPPC response to National Care Standards.
To Absent Friends
To Absent Friends, a people's festival of storytelling and remembrance, drew to a close in early November, after an event-packed week that saw people across Scotland taking time out to remember and tell stories of loved ones who had died.
The festival was initiated by Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief, the SPPC-led alliance working to make Scotland a place where people can be open about death, dying and bereavement.
People from across Scotland took part in the festival, either by attending one of the many public events, holding their own private acts of remembrance, or contributing to memorial activities on the festival website and across social media.
A summary and a photo gallery showcasing just a few of the amazing variety of events that took place is available - if you took part in the festival and would like to share your experiences, please get in touch.
Grasping the Nettle
The SPPC has published Grasping the Nettle: What action can we take to improve palliative and end of life care in Scotland? The paper articulates the views and expertise of SPPC member organisations and stakeholders with the aim of supporting, enriching and informing the development of the forthcoming Scottish Government Strategic Framework for Action on Palliative and End of Life Care (SFA).
This work was led by a multi-disciplinary subgroup of the SPPC Council and developed in consultation with SPPC members and other relevant stakeholders.
- explores what people need when faced with the reality of deteriorating health and death, bearing in mind that these experiences are influenced by many factors outside formal service provision;
- Ÿexplores and clarifies terminology;
- sets out a vision for a Scotland where people’s wellbeing is supported even as their health declines;
- outlines the current landscape relating to palliative and end of life care, including policy, barriers, and key issues;
- Ÿdescribes how a Strategic Framework for Action can add value, sets out 4 outcomes it should work towards, and 15 key challenges that need to be addressed in order to achieve these outcomes;
- Ÿproposes a number of practical actions that should be undertaken in the next five years to improve people’s experiences of death, dying and bereavement in Scotland.
A full copy of the report can be downloaded here: Grasping the Nettle
HIS Quality of Care Review Consultation
The SPPC has submitted a response to Healthcare Improvement Scotland's Quality of Care Review consultation, from the hospice members of the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care.
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