Our work
We undertake a varied range of work, all with the overarching objective of improving people’s experiences of living with declining health, death, dying and bereavement in Scotland.
A survey we undertook in 2017 revealed that our members and stakeholders particularly value the SPPC’s role in:
- Advocating the importance of palliative and end of life care.
- Keeping them informed about policy and practice.
- Enabling them to inform government policy and guidance.
- Facilitating networks/connections across the sector.
- Identifying and spreading good practice.
- Raising public awareness and understanding of good care towards the end of
life.
- Managing projects to implement improvements in palliative care.
Products delivered
by and through the SPPC in recent years include:
- A monthly ebulletin providing a digest of relevant policy, practice,
research and other news to around 3000 inboxes each month.
- The Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines
- Establishment and facilitation of the Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief
alliance which provides practical
resources and promotes advance planning and supportive behaviours around death,
dying and loss.
- Initiation of the annual To Absent Friends festival, which tackles isolation linked to bereavement.
- Annual Conferences
- Facilitation of annual Good Death Weeks, supporting individuals
and organisations to identify and address local issues.
- Developing content for key policy documents including Guidance on Caring for People in the Last Days and Hours of Life, Standards of Care for Older People in
Hospital and the Scottish Public Health Network report on public health approaches
to pallative care. During the
development of Scottish Government’s Strategic
Framework for Action on Palliative and End of Life Care SPPC made an
expert consensus view availabe to the
authors.
SPPC's workplan for 2019-20 can be downloaded here.