Sharing Current Scottish 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

Poster Abstracts of the Month - November

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 nine posters... click on the links to view the posters:

• Renfrewshire Bereavement Network click here
• Review of dietitian service within the Pelvic Radiation Disease (PRD) late effects clinic click here
• Role of MacMillan’s Improving the Cancer Journey in supporting people at end of life click here
• St Columba’s Hospice Access Team: traversing routes into evolving hospice care services click here
• The Emotion Labyrinth click here
• The hand that touches the Patient - Teaching professional carers using a Standardised Framework click here
• The Impact of a Supportive Care service for patients with Interstital Lung Disease click here
• Tri service development in Last Aid click here
• Truacanta: Scotland’s Compassionate Community Project click here

The SPPC blog is a space to share practice currently underway in Scotland. If you have practice you’d like to share, please get in touch.

Poster Abstracts of the Month - October

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 in the the SPPC e-bulletin and in this blog. This month we highlight these nine posters... click on the links to view the posters:

• Out with the old and in with the new: transforming community palliative care prescribing and administration of medicines in Tayside click here
• Palliative care delivery - An ambulance service journey click here
• Palliative care education for Clinical Fellows - an unmet need click here
• Palliative Care Research in Fife: developing an evidence base for improved policy, practice and care through collaboration and action click here
• Partnership Working - Developing Knowledge and Creating a Community of Practice in Palliative and End of Life Care for Paramedics - Scottish Ambulance Service and Marie Curie click here
• Practitioner perspectives on the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for bereavement support click here
• Quality of Care – Percentage of time spent at Home or in a Community Setting and Location of Death across Scotland click here
• Realistic Conversations webinars in NHSGGC click here
• Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) Evaluations and Future Steps click here

Poster abstracts of the month - September

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 in the the SPPC e-bulletin and in this blog. This month we highlight these nine posters... click on the links to view the posters:

• Influencing a restorative culture through the embedding of Resilience Based Clinical Supervision at St Columba’s Hospice Care click here
• Inverclyde Macmillan Improving the Cancer Journey – Community Based Approach click here
• Launch of the new Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines website and mobile application click here
• Let’s Talk about OSCaRS click here
• “Living Matters Now”: Improving transitional care for young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions click here
• Longer term feasibility of an online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention to promote palliative care staff well-being click here
• Making SENSE of End of Life Care click here
• More Than The Last Breath click here
• Music and movement for people with Parkinson’s disease and their carers: A Dalcroze Eurhythmics pilot study within a hospice environment click here