SG Strategic Framework for Action

Update: 12 December

Scottish Parliament Health & Sport Committee

Shona Robison, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing has written a letter to the Scottish Parliament Health and Sport Committee in response to their request for an update on the implementation of the Strategic Framework for Action on Palliative and End of Life Care (SFA).

Scottish Research Forum for Palliative and End of Life Care

The next meeting of the Research Forum will be on Thursday 23 February 2017 from 10.30am - 4pm in central Edinburgh. Everyone is invited to this forum where research relevant to the Strategic Framework for Action will be shared. The meeting is free and lunch is provided. Further information and booking details will be available soon. For more information please contact cott.Murray@ed.ac.uk">Prof Scott Murray or Prof Bridget Johnston.

Palliative and End of Life Care Education Community of Practice website

NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and Scottish Social Services Council(SSSC) are working together to develop a national education and development framework for the health and social services workforce.

They have set up a new website which aims to:

• Provide a forum for engagement with the development of the new national education and development framework.
• Allow people to contribute and provide input towards the identification of training needs of the workforce to address identified gaps in knowledge and skills for palliative and end of life care.
• Share information on the evolving progress of the national education and development framework.