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: June
The SPPC Autumn Season 2022 featured an online poster exhibition of 55 posters, sharing work and research underway across Scotland. Each month, our blog focuses on the content of a few of these posters. This month, we focus on:
- No-one Dies Alone Ayrshire
- “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well”: a young adult's right to eat
- Online public information about advance/ anticipatory care planning (ACP): Mapping review of UK and international websites
- Opioid Changes Through the Years in Patients with Uncontrolled Cancer Pain
- Palliative and End of Life Care for Older People in Care Homes: The Case of UK and Canada
- Palliative Care workers' experiences with and beliefs surrounding Deathbed Phenomena
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 about DNACPR by the Macmillan/Scottish Ambulance Service PEOLC project
The Macmillan/Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) Palliative and End of Life Care (PEOLC) project involves collaborative work with multiple teams in Health and Social Care and Third Sector across Scotland to improve care for those patients attended by SAS who have PEOLC needs.
Part of this work involves education sessions with SAS employees and other health professionals as well as developing pathways specifically for this group of patients both to support ambulance clinicians' decision making and to reduce inappropriate emergency department admissions at the end of life. Whilst delivering education to multiple groups it became apparent many HCP from all backgrounds still lacked confidence around the subject of a DNACPR form.
This led us to compile many of the FAQ around DNACPR into a poster that hopefully clearly defines the main things to do and not to do when a patient has or requires a DNACPR form to be completed or upheld.
See the poster here.
Poster Abstracts of the Month: May
The SPPC Autumn Season 2022 featured an online poster exhibition of 55 posters, sharing work and research underway across Scotland. Each month, our blog focuses on the content of a few of these posters. This month, we focus on:
- Imminence of Death amongst NHS Ayrshire and Arran Hospital Inpatients
- Improving awareness of the UHM Referral Process to the Specialist Palliative Care Team
- Improving the quality and value of care for people with poor prognosis cancers: a national questionnaire survey of General Practitioners in Scotland
- Improving the use of Treatment Escalation Plans within Medicine for the Elderly
- Introducing the Triage Hub Meeting at The Ayrshire Hospice
- No Time to Lose: Addressing the housing needs of people with MND
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: March
The SPPC Autumn Season 2022 featured an online poster exhibition of 55 posters, sharing work and research underway across Scotland. Each month, our blog focuses on the content of a few of these posters. This month, we focus on:
- Enhanced Community End-of-Life Care Provision in Fife during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Exploring Advance Care Planning in Scottish dementia policies: A Critical Discourse Analysis
- Exploring the initiation and revision of ACP with and for people with dementia: a narrative study
- GRESCO Agape: An international songwriting project for change, loss and grief bringing together hospice patients and school children
- Guidance at End of Life (GAEL) for Health Care Professionals: A Quality Improvement Project
- High Risk Pain Medicines abound! Gabapentinoid Prescribing Review in a Palliative Care Caseload
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: February
The SPPC Autumn Season 2022 featured an online poster exhibition of 55 posters, sharing work and research underway across Scotland. Each month, our blog focuses on the content of a few of these posters. This month, we focus on:
- Creating a community AHP service for patients receiving Hospice input: ensuring patients are being seen at the right time by the right person
- Deprescribing and Polypharmacy amongst Hospice Inpatients
- Developing a palliative care debrief
- Development of an integrated vascular surgery/ palliative medicine approach to patients with advanced peripheral vascular disease
- Dundee Urgent Home Visiting Team
- Dying in Poverty at the End of Life
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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