- Adults with Incapacity Act
- SPPC Submissions to Parliament on the Assisted Dying Bill
- SPPC's draft response to the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill
- Assisted Dying Bill Published
- Assisted Dying Bill
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 - October
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... click on the links to view the posters:
- Out with the old and in with the new: transforming community palliative care prescribing and administration of medicines in Tayside click here
- Palliative care delivery - An ambulance service journey click here
- Palliative care education for Clinical Fellows - an unmet need click here
- Palliative Care Research in Fife: developing an evidence base for improved policy, practice and care through collaboration and action click here
- Partnership Working - Developing Knowledge and Creating a Community of Practice in Palliative and End of Life Care for Paramedics - Scottish Ambulance Service and Marie Curie click here
- Practitioner perspectives on the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for bereavement support click here
- Quality of Care – Percentage of time spent at Home or in a Community Setting and Location of Death across Scotland click here
- Realistic Conversations webinars in NHSGGC click here
- Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) Evaluations and Future Steps click here
Poster abstracts of the month - September
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... click on the links to view the posters:
- Influencing a restorative culture through the embedding of Resilience Based Clinical Supervision at St Columba’s Hospice Care click here
- Inverclyde Macmillan Improving the Cancer Journey – Community Based Approach click here
- Launch of the new Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines website and mobile application click here
- Let’s Talk about OSCaRS click here
- “Living Matters Now”: Improving transitional care for young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions click here
- Longer term feasibility of an online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention to promote palliative care staff well-being click here
- Making SENSE of End of Life Care click here
- More Than The Last Breath click here
- Music and movement for people with Parkinson’s disease and their carers: A Dalcroze Eurhythmics pilot study within a hospice environment click here
Poster Abstracts of the Month: June
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 focus on:
- COMFRT at end of life in ICU - saving other lives and giving hope click here
- Compassionate communication in palliative and end-of-life care workshops for community telecare-alarm responders click here
- Conducting a Phase III Clinical Trial in a Hospice Environment click here
- Creating, nurturing and sustaining service improvement in Scotland's hospitals in the shadow of austerity click here
- Critical Junctures: when children and families need CHAS most click here
- De-Prescribing in Palliative Care: A Quality Improvement Approach at University Hospital Monklands click here
- Deprescribing in Palliative Care at the Ayrshire Hospice click here
- Dundee Enhanced Community Palliative Care Project click here
Poster Abstracts of the Month: October
The SPPC Autumn Season 2022 featured an online poster exhibition of 55 posters, sharing work and research underway across Scotland. Each month, our blog highlights a few of these posters. This month, we're highlighting:
- Views of Care at End of Life: An action research study exploring the best ways of eliciting patient and family views of end of life care and giving real time feedback in acute hospitals
- Views of Care at End of Life: Using Care Opinion to explore end of life experiences
- When Sage and Thyme met Zoom
- Working as a true multi-disciplinary team
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: May
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:
- Imminence of Death amongst NHS Ayrshire and Arran Hospital Inpatients
- Improving awareness of the UHM Referral Process to the Specialist Palliative Care Team
- Improving the quality and value of care for people with poor prognosis cancers: a national questionnaire survey of General Practitioners in Scotland
- Improving the use of Treatment Escalation Plans within Medicine for the Elderly
- Introducing the Triage Hub Meeting at The Ayrshire Hospice
- No Time to Lose: Addressing the housing needs of people with MND
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.
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