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 - February
The SPPC Autumn Season 2021 featured an online poster exhibition of 36 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:
- End of life Care Communication: developing an educational package for critical care nurses
- End of Life Care Together Highland
- Enhanced Palliative Care Helpline Highland
- Exploring the impact of weekly lunch and learn events within a hospital palliative care service
- For Young People, By Young People
- Hospice Hearty Meals
Poster abstracts of the month: January
The SPPC Autumn Season 2021 featured an online poster exhibition of 36 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:
- Bereavement Charter for Children and Adults in Scotland
- Can I Get a Connection? Taking Namaste Care training online
- Clinical Nurse Specialist Masterclass: A community of practice across Scotland
- Development of a tracking system for staff LFT testing for Covid-19
- Dying in the Cold: Being homeless at the end of life in Scotland
Poster abstracts of the month: December
The SPPC Autumn Season 2021 featured an online poster exhibition of 36 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 pool of tears: a young person’s lived experience through COVID
- An audit of hospital Anticipatory Care Planning in oncology during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
- An audit of steroid-prescribing in the inpatient unit at The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice
- Anticipatory Care Plans in acute medical receiving
- Anticipatory Grief: a new educational resource for health and social care staff
Poster abstracts of the month: September
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:
- What difference do human rights make to end of life care?
- What’s in a word? Language in dying patients
- When words aren't enough…Exploring young people's grief, loss and change through art
- Whole system approach: Supporting end of life care and conserving critical medicines during the COVID-19 pandemic
- You're on mute: A day hospice initiative to maintain services during COVID-19
- Your service, your way: Breaking down barriers and developing reciprocal links between the hospice and multiple ethnic minority communities in Govanhill, Glasgow using Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO)
Poster abstracts of the month: August
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:
- Using social media to disseminate evidence related to palliative and end of life care during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Values-based Reflective Practice (VBRP) in action during pandemic
- Volunteer involvement in rapid transfers of care from hospital to the community for people nearing the end of life
- Walking the line: A collaborative quality improvement project to reduce falls in an adult hospice in-patient unit
- Well, Well, Well: An adapted approach at delivering a wellbeing serving using digital technology
- Wellbeing goes Virtual!
RSS