- SPPC Achievements 2024-25
- Annual Conference 2025: From System Holes to Whole System
- Call for Posters
- Assisted Dying Bill - Perspectives Informed by Palliative Care
- SPPC’s response to the public consultation on the SG Strategy for Palliative Care
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: 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
Poster abstracts of the month: February
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:
- Building a Hospice at Home team
- Challenges with online data collection methods amongst people with dementia
- Community of practice for arts therapists and community artists working in hospices across Scotland
- Compassionate Communities: Sharing stories of loss, grief and care in lock-down
- Consultant-led virtual ward rounds in a specialist palliative care unit
- COVID-19 and hospital palliative care: A review of Ninewells HPCT referrals, activity and transfers to inpatient specialist palliative care
- COVID-19 Care Home Recovery ECHO Network
- COVID-19 Collaborative Compassionate Care - Supporting employees during COVID-19
Poster abstracts of the month: January
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:
3. ACCORD through COVID – continuing to Care
5. An audit of end-of-life documentation and assessment in a tertiary teaching hospital
6. An evaluation of a new service for patients who present with persistent breathlessness
8. Anticipatory Care Planning in care and nursing homes in Inverclyde
Poster abstracts of the month: October
The SPPC Annual Conference in 2019 featured 32 poster displays, 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:
Young People’s Rollercoaster of Bereavement
Glasgow City’s Riverside Care Home
An Alternative place for Palliative Care
Improving Anticipatory Care Planning (ACP) in Palliative care
Identifying people living with COPD who would benefit from Palliative care in East Ayrshire
MAGICE model – getting palliative care right every time
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