Sharing Current Scottish Practice
This blog provides an opportunity for people to share examples of current Scottish palliative care practice that might be of interest to the palliative care community more widely. If you know of work underway that might be relevant for sharing on our website, please get in touch.
Poster Abstracts of the Month - June
The Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2025 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.
Most of the posters are available to view on the SPPC website, and each month we highlight a few on this blog. This month we highlight these five posters... click on the links to view the posters:
Who Gets Hospice Care? Changing Demographics at Ardgowan Hospice, 2019-2024
Living and Dying in a Care Home – the stories we can tell (photovoice methodology)
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 - May
The Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2025 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.
Most 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:
- Lifes Stations (The Board Game)
- Palliative Prescribing at the Front Door
- Development of a Trauma Informed Rapid Access Palliative Care Clinic at Marie Curie Glasgow
- Long-term impacts of the EASE course – a qualitative study on participant experiences
- Exploring the impact of the Bereavement Charter Mark for employers in participating workplaces in Scotland: A phenomenological study
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 - April
The Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2025 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.
Most 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:
- Ward Documentation (QI Project)
- Kilbryde Hospice (improving care planning documentation)
- The use of PCCS to improve Palliative input in patients with advanced cancer
- Comparison (2024-25) of the outcomes and results of the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT) with the family and carers of community palliative patients across Fife, being seen by Specialist Palliative Care Team Occupational Therapy
- Stronger Together: Five hospices collaborate to develop and deliver yearly medicines management study-days for hospice nurses
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 - February
The Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2025 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.
Most 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:
A Survey of Palliative Care Services at Mulanje Mission Hospital
Bringing Care Closer to Home: Improving palliative care in remote, rural and island communities
All on the Same Page: A Collaborative Approach to Supporting Palliative Care in Care Homes
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: January
The Poster Exhibition at the SPPC Annual Conference 2025 showcased best practice and new initiatives to improve experiences of living with serious illness, dying and bereavement in Scotland and further afield.
Most 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:
- Prescriptions of naloxone for patients on new or titrating methadone in the hospice inpatient setting
- Specialist Palliative Care at the Hospital Front Door- Impact analysis
- From Admission to End-of-Life Care: Communication and Care Planning for Front Door Patients with Advanced Disease
- Coordinated, responsive district nursing in Fife: a critical enabler of palliative care and deaths in homely settings
- Outcomes of Pathway Which Supports SAS Delivery of Palliative and End of Life Care in Tayside
- Why do people with advanced cancer experience unplanned hospitalisation?
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.
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