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 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…
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: 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
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