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: January
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:
- Adopting a risk management approach
- Assessing the impact of decant from South Ayrshire to East Ayrshire on the demographics of patients admitted to the in-patient unit
- Becoming a University Hospice: From shared values to innovative practice and research
- CHAS Fresh Meals: Nutritious and Delicious
- Confidence is Key: Neighbours Supporting Each Other Through Grief
- Courageous Conversations: Delivering expert level communication skills on a digital platform
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: July
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:
- People living in care homes benefit from proactive multidisciplinary team working
- ReSPECT3 Public Awareness Campaign
- Routine checking of Key Information Summaries (KIS) on admission to colorectal surgery
- SPOT: The Safer Prescription of Opioids Tool – Data Analysis
Poster Abstracts of the Week: May
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:
- No-one dies alone, Ayrshire
- Nurse-led interventions for multimorbidity: a mixed-methods systematic review
- Opening the Door: connecting the hospice
- Outdoor hospice, in-patient care – benefits to health and wellbeing
- Palliative and end of life care in Scotland’s prisons: a mixed-methods evaluation
- Palliative Care Forum: an opportunity for learning and multidisciplinary reflection
Poster abstracts of the month - February
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:
- End of life Care Communication: developing an educational package for critical care nurses
- End of Life Care Together Highland
- Enhanced Palliative Care Helpline Highland
- Exploring the impact of weekly lunch and learn events within a hospital palliative care service
- For Young People, By Young People
- Hospice Hearty Meals
Poster abstracts of the month: June
The SPPC Autumn Season 2020 featured an online poster exhibition of 64 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:
- Rehabilitative palliative care - How rehabilitative is your hospice?
- Remote consultations in palliative care during COVID-19 pandemic: Near Me, near you?
- Retrospective analysis on the efficacy of the SPICT tool and the quality of patient communication in a palliative care population
- Supporting opioid prescribing in NHS Borders: SPOT - The Safer Prescription of Opioids Tool
- Supporting palliative care in care homes: What can a palliative nurse specialist bring to a care home support team
- Taking palliative care online
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