Cross Party Group Meeting (and AGM 2008) 11 June 2008: Launch of Living and dying with advanced heart failure: a palliative care approach (March 2008)

Professor Henry J Dargie, Director, Scottish Advanced Heart Failure Service, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow and Andy Carver, Prevention and Care Advisor, British Heart Foundation, Scotland introduced the recent publication from the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care. British Heart Foundation Scotland and the Scottish Government: Living and dying with advanced heart failure: a palliative care approach (March 2008)

Presentations were given by Dr Martin Leiper, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Roxburghe House, Dundee and Chairman of the Working Group and Dr Chris Ward, Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee.

• Dr Leiper - presentation
• Dr Ward - presentation

Suzanne Wood, Policy Advisor, Standards & Ethics Team at General Medical Council (GMC) delivered a presentation about their new guidance Consent: Patients and Doctors Making Decisions Together

• Suzanne Woods - presentation
• GMC Consent_guidance

Meeting Papers

• Agenda
• Approved minute of XPG meeting - 11 June 2008
• The GMC and End of Life Care – a position paper (Appendix 1)
• Presentation - The structure of Medical Training in the UK (Appendix 2)

AGM:

The following Office Bearers were elected:

Convener: Michael McMahon MSP

Vice-Conveners: Jamie McGrigor MSP

Secretary/Treasurer: Pat Wallace, Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care

AGM Papers

• Paper 1 - AGM 2008 Agenda
• Paper 2 - Approved minute of AGM 6 June 2007
• Paper 3a - Approved Annual Return 2007-2008
• Paper 3b - Approved accounts 2007-2008