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SPPC Submission to Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry

SPPC has made a submission to the “Let’s Be Heard” listening exercise which is part of the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry. 

The submission is based on engagement with stakeholders in 2021 during the production of SPPC’s report Every Story’s Ending, which has been complemented by a stakeholder workshop held in December 2023. 

The aims of SPPC’s engagement with the Inquiry are to:

• Ensure that the recommendations of the Inquiry reflect the experiences and expertise of our member organisations and practitioners during the pandemic
• Promote the inclusion of palliative and end of life care as an explicit, integrated component of future pandemic preparedness and pandemic response
• Highlight the innovative and positive work which was done to support end of life care during the pandemic
• Highlight specific issues relating to palliative and end of life care which need to be addressed for future pandemic preparedness
• Raise awareness and improve understanding of palliative and end of life care

You can download the submission HERE.

Call for posters

Are you involved in a project or piece of work that you would like to showcase?  Why not display it as part of the SPPC Palliative Care Poster Parade?

The Poster Parade aims to share best practice and new initiatives aimed at improving experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.   All succsesful posters will be part of a virtual poster exhibition March, culminating at the Poster Parade Event in the afternoon of Tuesday 26 March 2024 where a selection of poster exhibitors will be invited to give brief presentations of their work.

For an application form and further information, email: Pauline@palliativecarescotland.org.uk

All of the posters exhibited at the SPPC Annual Conference in November 2023 will automatically be included in the virtual Poster Parade Exhibition. 

The winner of the exhibition (voted by you!) will be announced at the event and presented with the prestigious ‘Derek Doyle Poster Prize’. 

Key dates

Friday 09 February 2024 – closing date for submission of poster abstracts

Friday 23 February 2024 – closing date for poster submissions

Monday 11 March 2024 – poster parade website goes live, and people can vote for their favourite poster

Saturday 23 March 2024 (12 noon) – voting closes

Tuesday 26 March 2024 – Poster Parade Event

Photo by Yonghyun Lee on Unsplash

Talk to action on bereavement events

Check out the first in a series of 'Moving from Talk to Action on Bereavement' events to discuss those within bereavement sector in Scotland can work together to achieve positive change. 

The event will take place on 23 January 2024 on Zoom.

Find out more here: Moving from Talk to Action on Bereavement event.

SPPC Annual Conference 2023

The SPPC Annual Conference will take place on 22 November at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.  Check out the programme and book your place here.

The conference will provide opportunities to hear about new approaches and practice which offer hope for improvement, hear challenging perspectives and energising inspiration, and to catch up with colleagues and make new connections.

Planned topics at the conference include:

• Intensive caring – an evidence-based practical approach to affirming each individual’s intrinsic worth towards the end of life.
• Challenges and opportunities in illuminating and understanding people’s end of life experiences.
• What can we learn from care homes about living well before dying well?
• Older people's experiences of iatrogenic suffering in hospital towards the end of life.
• Exploring how palliative care strategies are actually understood, interpreted and implemented in the real world.
• Using video to identify and understand every day brilliant palliative care, as a starting point for improvement.
• Palliative sedation - what it is, prevalence, practice, ethical issues and future developments.

For more information, check out the conference webpage: SPPC Annual Conference 2023