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: March
The SPPC Autumn Season 2022 featured an online poster exhibition of 55 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:
- Enhanced Community End-of-Life Care Provision in Fife during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Exploring Advance Care Planning in Scottish dementia policies: A Critical Discourse Analysis
- Exploring the initiation and revision of ACP with and for people with dementia: a narrative study
- GRESCO Agape: An international songwriting project for change, loss and grief bringing together hospice patients and school children
- Guidance at End of Life (GAEL) for Health Care Professionals: A Quality Improvement Project
- High Risk Pain Medicines abound! Gabapentinoid Prescribing Review in a Palliative Care Caseload
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: February
The SPPC Autumn Season 2022 featured an online poster exhibition of 55 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:
- Creating a community AHP service for patients receiving Hospice input: ensuring patients are being seen at the right time by the right person
- Deprescribing and Polypharmacy amongst Hospice Inpatients
- Developing a palliative care debrief
- Development of an integrated vascular surgery/ palliative medicine approach to patients with advanced peripheral vascular disease
- Dundee Urgent Home Visiting Team
- Dying in Poverty at the End of Life
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: December
The SPPC Autumn Season 2022 featured an online poster exhibition of 55 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 24/7 District Nursing Palliative Care Helpline in Fife: enabling timely, person-centred end of life care in the community
- A Creative Burst Before Lunch! A review of the use of weekly Creative, Therapeutic Arts group sessions in a hospice day service setting
- A Heartful Journey - Hospice Transport Service
- A Review of NHS Ayrshire and Arran Hospital Palliative Care Team TRAKCARE data 2021-2022
- Absent Friends Project: Patient Belonging Bags
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for people with palliative care needs, their caregivers and staff involved in their care: A systematic scoping review
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 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:
- Wellbeing your way
- Where to go when home is not possible? Place of care for people under 65 in their last months of life
- Who’s the expert? Creating public education about death that recognises, mobilises and develops the knowledge that exists within communities
- “You aren't expected to do this on your own” An exploration of virtual loss, grief and bereavement training for education and health staff during a pandemic
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: April
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:
- “I’m sorry I haven’t a clue” Public perceptions of anticipatory (advance) care planning (ACP) - scoping review, public consultations and websites
- Improving compliance of the Community CNS Team, in completing NHS GG&C Anticipatory Care Plan on Clinical Portal
- Introduction and assessment of a structured specialist palliative care discharge letter
- ‘Just in Case’ medication supplied on discharge
- Learnings from a transition pilot from paediatric to adult palliative care services: during a pandemic
- No Barriers, Continuing to Care Virtually…
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