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: 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.
Poster Abstracts of the Month: January
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:
- Adopting a risk management approach
- Assessing the impact of decant from South Ayrshire to East Ayrshire on the demographics of patients admitted to the in-patient unit
- Becoming a University Hospice: From shared values to innovative practice and research
- CHAS Fresh Meals: Nutritious and Delicious
- Confidence is Key: Neighbours Supporting Each Other Through Grief
- Courageous Conversations: Delivering expert level communication skills on a digital platform
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: December
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:
- A 24/7 District Nursing Palliative Care Helpline in Fife: enabling timely, person-centred end of life care in the community
- A Creative Burst Before Lunch! A review of the use of weekly Creative, Therapeutic Arts group sessions in a hospice day service setting
- A Heartful Journey - Hospice Transport Service
- A Review of NHS Ayrshire and Arran Hospital Palliative Care Team TRAKCARE data 2021-2022
- Absent Friends Project: Patient Belonging Bags
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for people with palliative care needs, their caregivers and staff involved in their care: A systematic scoping review
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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