Latest news from SPPC
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.
Living and Dying well website launched: August 2009
The Scottish Government has set up a website to provide information about work underway to implement the Living and Dying Well action plan. For further information see:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/LivingandDyingWell
Long term conditions action plan published: June 2009
The Scottish Government has published Improving the Health & Wellbeing of People with Long Term Conditions in Scotland: A National Action Plan. This has been published as CEL 23 (2009), and has at its centre the seven high impact changes developed through the Long Term Conditions Collaborative.
The action plan is available at: www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications
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