Annual conference 2009
PALLIATIVE CARE: How can we make a difference?
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Presentations at the conference included:
- What difference can Living and Dying Well make to palliative care services in Scotland? Dr Elizabeth Ireland, National Clinical Lead for Palliative Care
- Real life challenges of implementing a national end of life care strategy - Barbara Monroe, Chief Executive, St Columba's Hospice
- What difference can the Liverpool Care Pathway really make? - Phil Saltmarsh, Assistant Directorate Manager, Specialist Palliative Care Team, Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen Hospitals NHS Trust
- How can we make a difference to palliative care in hospitals? - Dr Pam Levack, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, NHS Tayside and Co-Chair L&DW short-life working group - acute setting
- Making a difference through network collaboration - Dr Paul Baughan, Forth Valley Health Board Lead Cancer GP & Lead Clinician, WOSCAN Primary Care MCN and Prof John Welsh, Professor of Palliative Medicine, University of Glasgow & Lead Clinician, WOSCAN Regional Palliative Care MCN
- How can we make a difference to palliative care services for children and young people? - Andrea Cail, Director of Service Development, Children's Hospice Association Scotland
- Making a difference for people with learning difficulties - Linda McEnhill, Founder, NNPCPLD and Widening Access Project Manager, Help the Hospices
- Make a difference to the majority of people with palliative care needs: people with non-malignant conditions - Dr Jackie Chaplin, Project Manager, Palliative care for people with non-malignant conditions, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
- Therapeutic encounters - how can you make a difference? - Dr David Reilly, Consultant, The Centre for Integrative Care, Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
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- Visiting all hours? The views of hospice staff on the visiting policy
- Better Together Project, Caring Together Project BHF / MCCC
- Acute Palliative Care Unit - A developing strategy for delivery of palliative care hospital patients
- Acute Palliative Care Unit - Rapid reduction of symptom burden and global distress in the hospital population
- Multi-disciplinary Palliative Care Education in Hospital - Utilising an embedded palliative care unit to provide clinically relevant teaching
- Making Practice Visible: Using the Liverpool Care Pathway in a Hospice setting
- Connect in Care - The story
- Connect in Care - Comments
- Connect in Care - I don't know how to talk about it
- Nurse consultants making a difference in Scotland ...
- Patients in the last year of life referred to the Acute Receiving Unit
- Implementing 'Vision and Values' a Strategy Development Plan in the Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice
- To boldly go: the marriage of palliative care and critical care
- GSFS - the electronic palliative care summary
- Predicted prognosis and prevalence of statin prescription in patients referred to hospital palliative care service
- Strengthening Non-cancer Palliative Care in Fife
- Breaking down the barriers with the Minority Ethnic Population in South Glasgow
- Clinical Audit of the transfer process of patients to the in-patient unit at ACCORD Hospice
- Ensuring an efficient and effective Acute Hospital Palliative Care MDT process
- Developement of a referral pathway for suspected Malignant Spinal Cord Compression
