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 - July
The SPPC Palliative Care Poster Parade is an online collection of posters showcasing 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 in the the SPPC e-bulletin and in this blog. This month we focus on:
- EASE: The Story So Far click here
- Effect of Palliative Care Education on the Palliative Care Knowledge of Newly Qualified Medical Doctors in Nigeria click here
- End of Life Medication Administration by Scottish Ambulance Service Clinicians click here
- Evaluating anticipatory care documentation for palliative patients discharged from hospital to home at two NHS GGC sites; a large teaching hospital and a district general hospital click here
- Exploring Community Nurses’ lived experiences and perceptions of ‘preparedness’ to provide palliative and end of life care in rural Scotland: a qualitative study protocol click here
- Exploring the impact of Community Connection for those who have been Bereaved click here
- Extending Future Care Planning across Health and Social Care click here
- Generalist Palliative Medicine in NHS Tayside click here
Poster Abstracts of the Month: June
The SPPC Palliative Care Poster Parade is an online collection of posters showcasing 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 in the the SPPC e-bulletin and in this blog. This month we focus on:
- COMFRT at end of life in ICU - saving other lives and giving hope click here
- Compassionate communication in palliative and end-of-life care workshops for community telecare-alarm responders click here
- Conducting a Phase III Clinical Trial in a Hospice Environment click here
- Creating, nurturing and sustaining service improvement in Scotland's hospitals in the shadow of austerity click here
- Critical Junctures: when children and families need CHAS most click here
- De-Prescribing in Palliative Care: A Quality Improvement Approach at University Hospital Monklands click here
- Deprescribing in Palliative Care at the Ayrshire Hospice click here
- Dundee Enhanced Community Palliative Care Project click here
Poster Abstracts of the Month: May
The SPPC Palliative Care Poster Parade is an online collection of posters showcasing 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 in the the SPPC e-bulletin and in this blog. This month we focus on:
- A Palliative Care Virtual Ward – A viable, safe, supportive alternative to dying in a hospice
- A Walk with Absent Friends’ A collaborative public art installation on loss, death, and care
- Addressing Terminal Agitation: A multidisciplinary approach to enhancing patient care and team support
- An audit of anticipatory care planning in patients with advanced liver disease and an investigation into the effects of having an advanced liver disease multi-disciplinary meeting on anticipatory care planning
- An innovative approach to develop and offer a training programme across services and boundaries based on what matters to service users, carers and staff
- An innovative, equitable approach to improve awareness of and access to supportive and palliative services and digital resources based on what matters to service users, carers and staff across Ayrshire and Arran
- Bridging Cultural Divides in Palliative Care: A Framework for Shared Decision-Making and Care Ethics in a Resource-Constrained Environment
Poster Abstracts of the Month: October
The SPPC Autumn Season 2022 featured an online poster exhibition of 55 posters, sharing work and research underway across Scotland. Each month, our blog highlights a few of these posters. This month, we're highlighting:
- Views of Care at End of Life: An action research study exploring the best ways of eliciting patient and family views of end of life care and giving real time feedback in acute hospitals
- Views of Care at End of Life: Using Care Opinion to explore end of life experiences
- When Sage and Thyme met Zoom
- Working as a true multi-disciplinary team
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 SPPC Autumn Season 2022 featured an online poster exhibition of 55 posters, sharing work and research underway across Scotland. Each month, our blog highlights a few of these posters. This month, we're highlighting:
- Taboo Busting: Creating a space to talk openly about death, dying and how we can be better prepared for the inevitable
- The ABC of ACP Training
- The Impact of Advance Care Planning on Quality of Life and Quality of Death for Asian older People in Palliative and End-of-Life Care: A Scoping Review
- The power of storytelling: building up a team mindset to tell the Hospice story
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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