Sharing Current Scottish Practice

Poster Abstracts of the Month - June

The Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2024 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.

All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few on our blog. This month we highlight these five posters... click on the links to view the posters:

• Experiences of Clonidine use over 18 months in the hospital in-patient unit
• Experiential learning of palliative care for 3rd year nursing students
• Fostering a Person-Centred Culture at St Columba’s Hospice Care
• Growing the Education Network to maturity using QI and coproduction to support hospice educators
• Healthcare professional knowledge and attitudes towards corneal donation

Poster Abstracts of the Month - May

The Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2024 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.

All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few on our blog. This month we highlight these five posters... click on the links to view the posters:

• Developing a Clinical Skills Suite within a Hospice Environment
• Developing a Person-Centred Learning and Development Framework
• Does Exercise In A Palliative Outpatient Setting Effect ‘What Matters to You?’
• EASE – End of life Aid Skills for Everyone
• Excellence in Care: Documenting Patients’ Preferences for preferred place of care and death

Poster Abstracts of the Month - April

The Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2024 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.

All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few on our blog. This month we highlight these five posters... click on the links to view the posters:

• An audit exploring quality of end-of-life care in the surgical department of a district general hospital
• Assessing and Addressing Spiritual Need
• Ayrshire Hospice Pilot of an Acute Medical Trainees Placement in community palliative care
• Creating, nurturing and sustaining service improvement in Scotland’s hospitals in the shadow of austerity
• Delirium assessment in two hospice inpatient units: An audit of current practice

Poster Abstracts of the Month - January

The SPPC Palliative Care Poster Parade is an online collection of posters showcasing best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield. All of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we’ll highlight a few on our blog. This month we highlight these six posters... click on the links to view the posters:

• Urgent Home Visiting Team click here
• Using an adapted Shadowbox technique to teach healthcare staff how to manage a patient with end-of-life care needs: A blueprint for educators click here
• What are the experiences, perceptions and educational needs of registered nurses to allow them to provide nurse led end-of-life care in an in-patient hospice setting? An extended literature review click here
• What to expect and what is expected!: A competency framework for Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialists in Palliative Care click here
• Who is more death literate – bus drivers or students? A pilot of the Death Literacy Index in Scotland click here
• Who’s calling? Evaluation of a Specialist Palliative Care 24/7 Telephone Advice Service click here