Previous cross-party group meetings

11 June 2025: Scottish Ambulance Service Macmillan Palliative and End of Life Care Project
19 February 2025: Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill - Perspectives Informed by the practice and provision of palliative care
4 December 2024: Palliative Care Matters for All - Strategy Consultation
24 September 2024: Value-based Care at End of Life
29 November 2023: Exploring the potential for a legislative underpinning to improve palliative and end of life care in Scotland
28 June 2023: Report of the Scottish Bereavement Summit
1 June 2023: Palliative Care Funding
23 March 2023: Exploring the practice and provision of palliative care in jurisdictions where assisted dying (euthanasia and/or enabling the self-administration of lethal medication) is legal
15 December 2022: Out of hours care
8 June 2022: Scottish Ambulance Service and Palliative Care
23 February 2022: The Lancet Commission on the Value of Death
7 December 2021: The future of palliative care research in Scotland
15 September 2021: National Care Service Consultation
22 June 2021: What the National Care Service could and should mean for people living with serious life-limiting illness
23 February 2021: Anticipatory Care Planning
9 December 2020: Five years on from the Strategic Framework for Action
22 September 2020: Spiritual Care Matters: Different Perspectives
26 August 2020: Covid-19 responses and lessons for the future
4 December 2019: National Audit of Care at End of Life (NACEL)
4 September 2019: Homelessness and palliative and end of life care
5 June 2019: Shaping bereavement care in the future: what next for Scotland?
13 March 2019: Creating the conditions for fair dementia care
12 December 2018: Education needs for children’s palliative care in Scotland; scoping and recommendations
5 September 2018: Human Rights and Palliative Care
6 June 2018: Palliative Care in Low and Middle Income Countries and the Role of International Volunteering
6 March 2018: Palliative Care transitions
5 December 2017: Palliative and end of life care in Scottish Hospitals
6 September 2017: Palliative and end of life care in Scottish Prisons
31 May 2017: Discussing the forthcoming Dementia Strategy
22 March 2017: Realising Realistic Medicine - Implications for palliative and end of life care
14 December 2016: What can be done to encourage more open and supportive attitudes to death, dying and bereavement in Scotland?
14 September 2016: Palliative and End of Life Care Education
10 February 2016: Data and Evidence
2 December 2015: Bereavement
9 September 2015: Strategic Framework for Action
11 March 2015: Out of Hours Review
10 December 2014: Working towards a national strategy for palliative and end of life care in Scotland - considerations, evidence and actions
11 June 2014: Carer Experience (incorporating the AGM)
4 December 2013: Palliative care for people living with non-malignant illness (joint meeting with the Heart Disease & Stroke Cross Party Group).
11 September 2013: Palliative and end of life care in hospitals - a structured response to deteriorating patients
12 June 2013 (incorporating the AGM): The relevance of ‘assets based’ approaches to palliative and end of life care in Scotland
13 March 2013: Caring for people who are dying; reflections on the Liverpool Care Pathway
12 December 2012: Palliative Care and Care Homes
12 September 2012: The Lothian Advance Care Planning Project
20 June 2012 (incorporating the AGM): Carers, palliative care and end of life care
21 March 2012: ‘Paediatric Palliative Care in Scotland - How did we get here and where are we going?’
16 November 2011: ‘Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief’
29 June 2011 (incorporating the AGM 2011) ‘A beginner’s guide to successful palliative care research’
23 March 2011: Meeting cancelled
8 December 2010: Meeting cancelled
3 November 2010: ‘The Palliative Care (Scotland) Bill’
8 September 2010: Meeting cancelled
16 June 2010 (incorporating the AGM 2010): ‘The Dementia Strategy’
23 March 2010: ‘End of Life Choices (Scotland) Bill’ Debate
9 December 2009: Meeting cancelled
9 September 2009: Joint meeting between the Cross Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Palliative Care and the Cross Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on International Development
17 June 2009 (incorporating the AGM 2009): Development of the GMC guidance ‘End of life treatment and care: Good practice in decision-making’
4 February 2009: Consultation on MSP Margo MacDonald’s proposed End of Life Choices (Scotland) Bill
7 January 2009: Living and Dying Well and MSP Roseanna Cunningham’s Proposed Palliative Care (Scotland) Bill
8 October 2008: Joint meeting with the Cross Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on International Development
11 June 2008: (incorporating the AGM 2008): Launch of Living and dying with advanced heart failure: a palliative care approach (March 2008)
5 March 2008: COPD and Palliative Care Services/ GMC’s review of its publication Withholding and Withdrawing Life-prolonging Treatments: Good Practice in Decision-making
5 December 2007: The findings of the Macmillan Scotland-wide Lymphoedema Service Mapping Project
26 September 2007:Meeting to elect Office Bearers of the Cross Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Palliative Care
6 June 2007 (incorporating the 2007 AGM)
7 March 2007: Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS)/ Public Petition PE1031