NHS Employers has produced a short video featuring Salford Royal Foundation Trust and its collaborative approach to delivering end-of-life care training to providers across the region.
Rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission for its end-of-life care services, the hospital excels in facilitating shared learning and reciprocal training with other hospitals, care homes, primary care and the private sector.
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Most people say they do not want to die in hospital, but most people do die there. Where wishes are recorded, care is usually better. The preference was not thought to have been recorded for over 80% of people towards the end of life, in this study.
In August 2016, recommendation 1.1.12 was deleted and a link added to NICE’s guideline on controlled drugs: safe use and management, which has newer advice on the topic. Two out of date research recommendations have also been deleted.
A CPD article improved Anne O’Reilly’s knowledge of palliative and end of life care for people living with dementia in care homes. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Discover how Leeds Teaching Hospitals provided a tailored approach to training, in the final of a suite of case studies focused on enhancing end-of-life care.
In addition to trust-wide training opportunities, the palliative care and end-of-life care specialists offered bespoke departmental teaching and focused interventions to improve care within specific clinical areas.
Increasing evidence demonstrates the benefits of early end-of-life care discussions with patients with life-threatening illness and their families. However, these conversations often do not occur. This review explores some of the many barriers faced by clinicians in relation to end-of-life care discussions, including prognostic uncertainty, fear of causing distress, navigating patient readiness and feeling unprepared for these conversations. The value of core clinical communication skills, potential strategies for improvement and areas for future research are also discussed. It is essential that clinicians offer patients facing life-threatening illness, and those close to them, the opportunity to discuss end-of-life issues in line with their information and decision-making preferences. With a growing and ageing global population, supporting both generalist and specialist providers of palliative care in this task is key. With careful preparation, fears of undertaking these discussions should not be a barrier to initiating them. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Findings demonstrate that families hold an inherent capacity to make meaning of the death and enact family thereafter. Family relations arose as interplay of different, contradicting forces. Nurses should facilitate families’ meaning-making of the death, attend to their converging and diverging sense of loss and strengthen family caring. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Nurses play an important role in monitoring and supporting patients and their relatives at the end of life.
To date, there is a lack of recent empirical research on the experiences of psychiatric nurses in providing palliative care to psychiatric patients who suffer from life-threatening physical co-morbidity.
The limited literature available indicates that palliative care for psychiatric patients needs to be improved. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Approaching end of life is often a time of vulnerability; this is particularly so for people with dementia and their families where loss of capacity and the ability to communicate, make assessment and shared decision-making difficult. Research has consistently shown that improvements in care and services are required to support better quality and more person-centred care for people with dementia towards and at end of life. However, the views of people with dementia about what factors contribute to high-quality care at this time are a neglected area. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Our resource is designed to support clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and local authorities in England to effectively commission palliative care for children and young people aged 0–25.
NCPC has just published a new guide on end of life care for older LGBT people.
The publication, “Being Accepted Being Me: Understanding the end of life care needs for older LGBT people” is intended to help health and social care staff and volunteers to learn more about listening, understanding and responding to the unique needs of LGBT people. It has been jointly produced and written by Kathryn Almack of the University of Nottingham and NCPC. It can be seen as a complement to the Marie Curie resource, Hiding Who I Am, released earlier this year, as well as NCPC’s previous publication & DVD
Created in 2010 and completely updated in 2015, e-ELCA is an e-learning programme aimed at enhancing the training and education of all those involved in providing end-of-life care. It is managed by Health Education England’s e-Learning for Healthcare programme in partnership with the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland (APM).