Sharing Current Scottish Practice
This blog provides an opportunity for people to share examples of current Scottish palliative care practice that might be of interest to the palliative care community more widely. If you know of work underway that might be relevant for sharing on our website, please get in touch.
Poster Abstracts of the Month: January
The Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2025 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.
Most of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few on our blog. This month we highlight these six posters... click on the links to view the posters:
- Prescriptions of naloxone for patients on new or titrating methadone in the hospice inpatient setting
- Specialist Palliative Care at the Hospital Front Door- Impact analysis
- From Admission to End-of-Life Care: Communication and Care Planning for Front Door Patients with Advanced Disease
- Coordinated, responsive district nursing in Fife: a critical enabler of palliative care and deaths in homely settings
- Outcomes of Pathway Which Supports SAS Delivery of Palliative and End of Life Care in Tayside
- Why do people with advanced cancer experience unplanned hospitalisation?
The SPPC blog is a space to share practice currently underway in Scotland. If you have practice you’d like to share, please get in touch.
Poster Abstracts of the Month - October
The Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2024 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.
All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few on our blog. This month we highlight these six posters... click on the links to view the posters:
- The Impact of Advance Care Planning on Quality of Life, Quality of Care, and Quality of Death for Older
- People in Palliative and End-of-Life Care: A Qualitative Study in Northern Thailand
- The longest day? Prescribing in the last 24 hours of life
- The use of a Symptom Control Observation Chart in a Medicine for the Elderly Ward
- Unreached - the impact of financial insecurity and socioeconomic deprivation on people at the end of life:
Rural and Island communities in Scotland - ‘What matters to you?’: barriers to junior doctors exploring patients’ values in admission areas
The SPPC blog is a space to share practice currently underway in Scotland. If you have practice you’d like to share, please get in touch.
Poster Abstracts of the Month - September
The Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2024 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.
All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few on our blog. This month we highlight these five posters... click on the links to view the posters:
- Shared leadership in hospice care: Insights from St Columba’s Hospice Care
- ‘Sharing is Caring’ Redesigning CNS Caseload Management Mode
- Staff Experiences of Delivering end of life care in acute hospital settings: A Qualitative Framework Study
- Staff perspectives regarding delirium care in two hospice inpatient units: Findings from a questionnaire
The SPPC blog is a space to share practice currently underway in Scotland. If you have practice you’d like to share, please get in touch.
Poster Abstracts of the Month - August
The Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2024 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.
All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few on our blog. This month we highlight these five posters... click on the links to view the posters:
- Reducing Prescribing Errors in a Hospice Setting—A Multimodal QI Project
- Reinvigorating Community Palliative Care in Inverclyde
- Reshaping our Hospice Community Services
- Review of Generalist Palliative Care/ Recognition of Dying within NHS Ayrshire and Arran: local SEECare audit
- Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines: usage data and user survey
The SPPC blog is a space to share practice currently underway in Scotland. If you have practice you’d like to share, please get in touch.
Poster Abstracts of the Month - July
The Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2024 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.
All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few on our blog. This month we highlight these five posters... click on the links to view the posters:
- Heart Failure: Getting to the Heart of ‘What Matters to You?’ Conversations
- In the Darkest Hours: Paramedics Delivering Palliative Care
- Kickstarting Kilbryde Hospice Day Service
- No One Dies Alone Services
- Proactive Palliative Care at the Front Door
The SPPC blog is a space to share practice currently underway in Scotland. If you have practice you’d like to share, please get in touch.
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