Latest news from SPPC
Cross Party Group on Palliative Care
Audio Recording of Debate on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
The Cross Party Group on Palliative Care met at the Scottish Parliament on March 23rd 2010. The meeting featured a debate on assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia, with reference to the End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill.
The meeting was chaired by Michael McMahon MSP. Mr John Paley, Senior Lecturer at the University of Stirling, spoke first in support of physician assisted suicide. Dr Stephen Hutchison, Consultant Physician in Palliative Medicine at the Highland Hospice, spoke against physician assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. An extended question and discussion session followed.
You can find out more information and download MP3 files of presentations and Q&A session in our cross-party group section.
Living and Dying Well - Short Life Working Group 7
As part of the work associated with Living and Dying Well, the Scottish government’s action plan for palliative and end of life care, the Partnership led a working group to report on the subject:-
Addressing palliative and end of life care from a public health and health promotion perspective: facilitating wider discussion of death, dying and bereavement across society.
A copy of the working group’s final report is now available for download: SLWG7 Final Report
Report of International Palliative Care Awareness and Training Seminar: October 2009
A meeting was held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on 1 October 2009 to describe and stimulate links between Scotland and other countries in palliative care. To download a report of this event click here.
NHS QIS draft COPD standards open for consultation: August 2009
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland has developed draft clinical standards for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and these are open for consultation from 31 August until 4 December 2009. For more information and to comment on the standards, go to:
www.nhshealthquality.org/nhsqis/6527.html
Appointment of new Director
The Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care is delighted to announce that Mark Hazelwood has been appointed to take over as its new Director following the retirement of Pat Wallace in December 2009.
Mark began his career as an NHS Scotland Management trainee, moving subsequently through a series of management roles in the Scottish acute sector. He then spent four years running VSO’s international development operations in Ghana, West Africa, a role he carried out as a job share with his wife. Returning to Scotland he became Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland, leading the organisation through nine years of growth and development.
Mark will be joining the Partnership from his current position as the manager of Scotland’s Mental Health Research Network.
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