- Assisted Dying Bill
- Assisted Dying Bill Published
- Winners of the Derek Doyle Poster Prize
- Palliative Care Poster Parade
- SPPC Submission to Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry
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 Autumn Season 2020 featured an online poster exhibition of 64 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:
- The Access Team
- The haemato-oncology patient experience of the process of palliative care in the last year of life: A constructivist grounded theory study
- The methodological challenges of rapid data collection in a pandemic
- The Virtual Hospice
- To plan or not to plan just yet? Early support and care planning for people with poor prognosis cancers in primary care
- Using Project ECHO to enable a range of palliative care education during COVID-19
Poster abstracts of the month: June
The SPPC Autumn Season 2020 featured an online poster exhibition of 64 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:
- Rehabilitative palliative care - How rehabilitative is your hospice?
- Remote consultations in palliative care during COVID-19 pandemic: Near Me, near you?
- Retrospective analysis on the efficacy of the SPICT tool and the quality of patient communication in a palliative care population
- Supporting opioid prescribing in NHS Borders: SPOT - The Safer Prescription of Opioids Tool
- Supporting palliative care in care homes: What can a palliative nurse specialist bring to a care home support team
- Taking palliative care online
Poster abstracts of the month: May
The SPPC Autumn Season 2020 featured an online poster exhibition of 64 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:
- Managing home support volunteers during a pandemic
- NHSGGC inspiring leadership, leading self and leading with others in a palliative care setting
- Opioid prescribing in palliative head and neck cancer patients
- Palliative care education: Transformational change in response to COVID-19
- Parlez-vous prognostic indicators? How health and social care occupational therapists in Fife are driving integrated system-wide change in palliative care services
- Past, present and future: Caring for those approaching the end of life in Scottish hospitals
- Perspectives of palliative care clinical nurse specialists regarding the management of delirium in terminally ill patients in the community
- Pilot of Macmillan Foundations in Palliative Care For Health Care Support Workers in Acute Hospitals across NHSGGC
Poster abstracts of the month: April
The SPPC Autumn Season 2020 featured an online poster exihibition of 64 posters, sharing work and research underway across Scotland. Each month, this blog focuses on the content of a few of these posters. This month, we focus on:
- How well did we palliate breathlessness in those dying of COVID-19?
- Improving Anticipatory Care Planning on a general medical ward
- Improving venous thromboembolism and steroid prescribing at an inpatient hospice unit: A quality improvement project
- Indictors of quality at end of life: A regional project spanning hospice, hospital and community specialist palliative care services in Lanarkshire
- Keeping connected through creative arts
- Leading Anticipatory Care Planning that includes cardio-pulmonary resuscitation decisions and discussions with patients and families: An advanced practice role for nurses and physiotherapists
- Living and dying - Class in a bag
- Making waves to keep patients at home: Establishment of a domiciliary ultrasound service for palliative care patients
Poster abstracts of the month: March
The SPPC Autumn Season 2020 featured an online poster exihibition of 64 posters, sharing work and research underway across Scotland. Each month, this blog focuses on the content of a few of these posters. This month, we focus on:
- Dignity, for everyone every day
- End of Life Aid Skills for Everyone (EASE): A public education course
- Giving our patients the ReSPECT they deserve: Changes from a medical approach to a more person-centred one
- Good Grief: supporting people through bereavement
- Hear their voices: The importance of a young adult clinic
- High Healthcare Gain potential (pHHG) data, does it have a role in planning palliative care in primary care?
- Hospice Hearty Meals: Tackling food inequality during the pandemic
- Hospice staff experiences of remote consultations for palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Virtual focus group study
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