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- Annual Conference 2025: From System Holes to Whole System
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- Assisted Dying Bill - Perspectives Informed by Palliative Care
News
Small Grants Programme Announced
The Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care has set up a small grants programme to support activities, events or projects aimed at helping Scotland to become a place where people are more open about death, dying and bereavement. The grants programme aims to support the work of Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief.
Specifically, we are looking to fund projects that:
- Help people to find ways of dealing with their own experiences of death, dying and bereavement.
- Help individuals and communities to support those who are experiencing difficult times associated with death, dying and bereavement.
- Support NHS and social care staff and volunteers to work compassionately and constructively with those who are dying or have been recently bereaved.
- Help people to make practical preparations for their death, for example Will, Power of Attorney and Advance Care Planning.
- Promote openness/discussion of death, dying and bereavement.
Apllications are sought from Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief member organisations, and the maximum grant available is £500. Membership is open to all organisations and individuals who wish to support the aims and objectives of GLGDGG.
The closing date for applications is Monday 8 April to allow applications to be processed and relevant money distributed in time for GLGDGG Awareness Week, 13-19 May 2013. (Applications are also accepted for activities scheduled outside Awareness Week.) We appreciate the timescale is tight and with this in mind the application form is designed to be straightforward to complete.
More information and an application form is available here: weblink.
Quality Indicators for Palliative Care
SPPC has made a submission to HIS on their draft quality indicators for palliative care. You can read the submission here
Learning Disabilities and Palliative Care: Building Bridges, Supporting Care
The Scottish Government and Help the Hospices have jointly funded this project which aims support staff in the provision of best quality care for people with learning disabilities who have palliative care needs.
The project covers Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and brings together staff specialising in Learning Disabilities and in Palliative Care, using a practice development approach.
The project is being jointly led by Liz Smith, Practice Development Facilitator at The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice, and Allison O’Donnell, Learning Disability Nurse from the Renfrew Learning Disability Team. Funded for one year, the project started in August 2012, though the project team hope that there will be future funding following the project's initial support and success.
The aims of the project are
1. To develop partnership working, building relationships at both strategic and clinical levels between local palliative care and learning disability teams.
2. To develop a care pathway to deliver appropriate and high quality palliative care for people with learning disabilities, including guidance for referral to specialist palliative care.
3. To ensure all staff have easy access to locally adapted resources, including assessment and support tools, and ensure staff are equipped with the knowledge and skills to use these resources.
4. To link with the clinical workforce teams, building upon their knowledge, skills and confidence to ensure they provide high quality palliative care to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities.
5. To ensure the Prince and Princess of Wales hospice services are accessible and appropriate for people with learning disabilities.
Project Progress to date
- Partnership working has been established and is working well between joint project leads.
- A project steering group has been established and is meeting every two months
- There has been promotion of the project to 12 Learning Disability and six hospice teams within Greater Glasgow and Clyde
- Key staff from both specialities have been identified to take part in joint education and training, case discussion and reflective practice every two months. (The first of these was held in November 2012.)
- 78 delegates attended an education event open to all learning disability and palliative care staff within Greater Glasgow and Clyde. The day was a great success a further event is planned for May 2013.
This project links in with the NHS GG&C Learning Disability Strategy. Project outputs will be shared nationally.
For any further information please contact Project Leads: Liz Smith or Allison O'Donnell or telephone 0141 429 5599.
Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP)
There is currently a lot of coverage of the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) in the media. We try to provide clarity about what the Liverpool Care Pathway is - and what it is not HERE
Annual Conference 2012 - Palliative Care: Population and people
Conference presentatations and posters are now available to download here
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