Sharing Current Scottish Practice

Poster abstracts of the month - August

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:

• Giving yourself loving kindness click here
• “Greetin’ for a wee bawbee”: Embracing Scottish Heritage within Music Therapy in a Palliative Care Setting click here
• Growing up in palliative care – is there a prescription for transition? click here
• Heart Failure: Getting to the heart of ‘What Matters to You’ Conversations click here
• “Here’s My Number, Call Me Maybe?” Developing a Specialist Palliative Care Telephone Advice Line for Healthcare Professionals click here
• Hospital Palliative Care Team Referrals for People with Advanced Liver Disease click here
• “I just want to be me”: End of life care for trans and gender diverse communities click here
• Improving oral care for those with frailty and life limiting illness: A quality improvement project in a Hospice and Acute Hospital Medicine for the Elderly setting click here
• Inequalities faced by prisoners in the UK in relation to their access to palliative care click here