Sharing Current Scottish Practice

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:

1. A flying start: Development, rapid adaptation and collaborative work through a newly established Scottish Network for Acute Palliative Care: SNAPC

2. A place of esKape: Providing support to frontline healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic

3. ACCORD through COVID – continuing to Care

4. Achieving evening support for carers: How an evening support programme enabled carers to have the time to attend and the benefits achieved

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

7. And the choir sang on: How and why the Kilbryde Community Choir continued singing together during the COVID-19 pandemic

8. Anticipatory Care Planning in care and nursing homes in Inverclyde