Annual Conference 2012 - Poster Presentations

This year's conference took place at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on Thursday 11 October 2012. Listed below are the posters presented at the conference - to view click on the poster name.

Poster Presentations:

• Adapting to Life After Loss: Does counselling in a specialist palliative care unit make a difference?

• Approaches to quality End of Life Care in NHS Lothian

• Audit of electronic Palliative Care Summary (ePCS) in NHS Forth Valley

• Audit of empirical first line antibiotic therapy for in-patients at St. Andrew’s Hospice, Airdrie

• Audit of Living and Dying Well based on Patient Experience of Non-Specialist Palliative Care

• Bereaved by Suicide

• Conservative Care in Chronic Renal Disease

• Developing New Models of Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Non-Malignant Respiratory Disease

• End-of-Life Education to support use of the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP): Lifting the Lid

• Evaluation of Lothian spinal line service for cancer pain

• Factors contributing to a 'good death' within the Care Home Setting

• Has the Liverpool Care Pathway improved the care of the dying patients in NHS Lanarkshire?

• Identifying patients with advanced conditions for supportive and palliative care using a clinical indicators tool: SPICT™

• Implementation of the Liverpool Care Pathway Lothian CH(C)P's: People at home and NHS continuing care hospitals

• The provision of Anticipatory Care Plans (ACPs) in Care Homes in the North of Scotland and Recommendations for Improvement

• What are the barriers to dying at home in Ayrshire?

• What does it take to get it right each time.....and is the picture complete? Providing an effective palliative care service from community pharmacies

• Handout - Providing an effective palliatve care service from community pharmacies

• Zoledronic Acid Use in the Day Hospice