- Annual Conference 2025: From System Holes to Whole System
- Call for Posters
- Assisted Dying Bill - Perspectives Informed by Palliative Care
- SPPC’s response to the public consultation on the SG Strategy for Palliative Care
- Adults with Incapacity Act
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SPPC wins award
The Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care has won the prestigious Voluntary Sector Partnership Award at this year's annual Scottish Public Service Awards.
The award, sponsored by SCVO, is designed to recognise public and third-sector organisations working in partnership to deliver better outcomes in public services. It highlights that these partnerships provide the day-to-day public services that support and care for people and communities throughout Scotland. And they are often lifelines for vulnerable citizens who could otherwise go unnoticed.
The SPPC won the award in recognition of its work to improve people's experiences of living with serious illness, caring, dying and grieving in Scotland.
SPPC brings together over 100 partners from across Scotland, within the statutory, third sectors and independent sectors, including NHS Boards, hospices, HSCPs, charities, professional associations, social care and community groups. Partners bring money, expertise and a passion to improve experiences during the most difficult phases of life.
The award highlights that, over 30 years, quietly and with a low profile, SPPC has enabled collaboration which has led to service improvement, innovation, education, policy development, problem solving and education, within a domain that people often find hard to think about. It also works directly with the public, enabling community-led action, public education and information resources.
Winners of the Derek Doyle Poster Prize
The Palliative Care Poster Parade 2022 featured 55 posters, showcasing a huge variety of work from across Scotland. Each year, the Derek Doyle Poster Prize is awarded to the poster that gets the most public votes.
As many people will know Derek was a key figure in Scotland, the UK and globally in the development of palliative care – instrumental in establishing palliative medicine as a speciality, first chair of the Association for Palliative Medicine, first Vice-Chairman of the European Association for Palliative Care and a founding member of the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care.
This year's winners were:
1st: Patient, Family and Staff Experience of the ReSPECT Process
By Cara Finlay – 4th Year Medical Student, University of Dundee and Morag MacRae – Patient Safety Development Manager, NHS Tayside (Pictured above)
2nd No Time to Lose: Addressing the housing needs of people with MND
By Susan Webster, MND Scotland.
3rd The power of storytelling: building up a team mindset to tell the Hospice story
By Ailsa Herd, Communications Manager, Strathcarron Hospice
A recording of the Poster Parade Event is available here: Poster Parade Event
Photo: Ellie Salter, Cara Finlay, Morag Macrae.
Palliative Care Poster Parade
We're pleased to launch the 2022 Palliative Care Poster Parade.
This online poster exhibition gathers together interesting palliative care projects from across Scotland, and presents them online for people to view, share and vote on.
The Poster Parade will take place over Twitter this week #SPPCPosterParade, and culminate in an event on 28 October when a selection of exhibitors will give brief presentations of their work and take part in a Q&A via Zoom.
Over the next two weeks, we invite you to vote for your favourite poster - the poster with the most votes will win the prestigious Derek Doyle Poster Prize.
SPPC Response to the Scottish Parliament Call for Evidence on the National Care Service Bill
The SPPC have submitted a response to the Scottish Parliament Call for Evidence on the National Care Service Bill.
If you'd like to read the response in full, it can be viewed here.
SPPC Response to the Scottish Government's Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy
The SPPC have submitted a response to the Scottish Government's Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy. If you'd like to read the response in full, you can view it here.
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