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 Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2024 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.
All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few on our blog. This month we highlight these five posters... click on the links to view the posters:
- Developing a Clinical Skills Suite within a Hospice Environment
- Developing a Person-Centred Learning and Development Framework
- Does Exercise In A Palliative Outpatient Setting Effect ‘What Matters to You?’
- EASE – End of life Aid Skills for Everyone
- Excellence in Care: Documenting Patients’ Preferences for preferred place of care and death
Poster Abstracts of the Month - April
The Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2024 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.
All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few on our blog. This month we highlight these five posters... click on the links to view the posters:
- An audit exploring quality of end-of-life care in the surgical department of a district general hospital
- Assessing and Addressing Spiritual Need
- Ayrshire Hospice Pilot of an Acute Medical Trainees Placement in community palliative care
- Creating, nurturing and sustaining service improvement in Scotland’s hospitals in the shadow of austerity
- Delirium assessment in two hospice inpatient units: An audit of current practice
Poster Abstracts of the Month - January
The SPPC Palliative Care Poster Parade is an online collection of posters showcasing best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield. All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few on our blog. This month we highlight these six posters... click on the links to view the posters:
- Urgent Home Visiting Team click here
- Using an adapted Shadowbox technique to teach healthcare staff how to manage a patient with end-of-life care needs: A blueprint for educators click here
- What are the experiences, perceptions and educational needs of registered nurses to allow them to provide nurse led end-of-life care in an in-patient hospice setting? An extended literature review click here
- What to expect and what is expected!: A competency framework for Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialists in Palliative Care click here
- Who is more death literate – bus drivers or students? A pilot of the Death Literacy Index in Scotland click here
- Who’s calling? Evaluation of a Specialist Palliative Care 24/7 Telephone Advice Service click here
Poster Abstracts of the Month - November
The SPPC Palliative Care Poster Parade is an online collection of posters showcasing best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield. All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few on our blog. This month we highlight these nine posters... click on the links to view the posters:
- Renfrewshire Bereavement Network click here
- Review of dietitian service within the Pelvic Radiation Disease (PRD) late effects clinic click here
- Role of MacMillan’s Improving the Cancer Journey in supporting people at end of life click here
- St Columba’s Hospice Access Team: traversing routes into evolving hospice care services click here
- The Emotion Labyrinth click here
- The hand that touches the Patient - Teaching professional carers using a Standardised Framework click here
- The Impact of a Supportive Care service for patients with Interstital Lung Disease click here
- Tri service development in Last Aid click here
- Truacanta: Scotland’s Compassionate Community Project click here
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 - August
The SPPC Palliative Care Poster Parade is an online collection of posters showcasing best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield. All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few in the the SPPC e-bulletin and in this blog. This month we highlight these nine posters:
- Giving yourself loving kindness click here
- “Greetin’ for a wee bawbee”: Embracing Scottish Heritage within Music Therapy in a Palliative Care Setting click here
- Growing up in palliative care – is there a prescription for transition? click here
- Heart Failure: Getting to the heart of ‘What Matters to You’ Conversations click here
- “Here’s My Number, Call Me Maybe?” Developing a Specialist Palliative Care Telephone Advice Line for Healthcare Professionals click here
- Hospital Palliative Care Team Referrals for People with Advanced Liver Disease click here
- “I just want to be me”: End of life care for trans and gender diverse communities click here
- Improving oral care for those with frailty and life limiting illness: A quality improvement project in a Hospice and Acute Hospital Medicine for the Elderly setting click here
- Inequalities faced by prisoners in the UK in relation to their access to palliative care click here
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