Review of Liverpool Care Pathway announced
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The Department of Health has announced that it is to hold a review looking at how the Liverpool Care Pathway for Dying Patients (LCP) is being used in practice. Read more »
Category Archives: End of life care
How would I know? What can I do?
This guide, developed by the National Council for Palliative Care, for carers and those who work with people with dementia provides advice on how to help with pain and distress in people with the condition. Read more »
VOICES survey on the quality of end of life care
Wide variations in the quality of end of life care across the country were revealed in findings of the VOICES survey recently published by the Office of National Statistics. Read more »
The importance of end of life care
Eve Richardson Chief Executive of the National Council for Palliative Care and the Dying Matters Coalition talks about the importance of end of life care and how having sometimes difficult conversations can improve the level of care for people living with dementia by ensuring their wishes are carried out. Read more »
Dying well with dementia
New research published by Alzheimer’s Society, ‘My Life Until The End: Dying Well With Dementia’, calls for greater awareness of the importance of talking about death and dying.
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Advance care planning toolkit
A team at the National End of Life Care Programme (NEoLCP) has developed an advance care planning toolkit to help care providers approach the planning process with confidence and knowledge. Read more »
Understanding patterns of care at the end of life
A recently published report by the Nuffield Trust explores social care’s significant contribution to end of life care and how closely it links with healthcare. Read more »
Commissioning person-centred end of life care
This recently published toolkit identifies the main elements involved in the commissioning process, explains the commissioning cycle in practical terms and offers a four-stage approach across all sectors. Read more »
End of life care strategy: fourth annual report
The Department of Health has published the fourth annual report on progress in delivering the End of Life Care Strategy. Read more »
Involve Me
Involve Me is a new web based tool which helps organisations to record, reflect and report on the way that they involve people with personal experience. Read more »
Dementia: what care do patients and carers need in the last year of life and time surrounding death?
This study sought to explore needs of people with dementia and their informal carers in the last year of life and surrounding death. Aims: The main aim of this study was to explore experiences of this group identifying their underlying needs at this time. Read more »
Draft Care and Support Bill published
The draft Care and Support Bill has been published. It creates a single law for adult care and support, replacing more than a dozen different pieces of legislation. Read more »
Give your views on improving the quality of nursing care
The independent Nursing and Care Quality Forum would like to hear your views on the quality of nursing and care, and how you think this could be improved. Read more »
Review of end of life care research methods
This review provides an overview of the range of research methods that have been commonly used in end of life care research and their relevance for social care. Read more »
Advance care planning for the end of life
The National Institute for Health Research has announced a new study into the initiation of advance care planning (ACP) for those entering end of life care. Read more »
Care to Learn training programme
Care to Learn is the Introductory End of Life Care Training Programme from the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC). It is relevant to all staff caring for people at the end of life, in particular those working in care homes, housing organisations, other community settings and hospitals. Read more »
The End of Life Care in Advanced Dementia project
This 3 year project based in a 120-bedded Jewish Care nursing home offered extra training and support for care home staff looking after residents with advanced dementia. Read more »
Report raises questions over equality of access to end of life care community services
This is the latest publication of provisional post-operatives scores from the Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme for the period April 2011 to September 2011. Read more »
Guide for commissioners on end of life care for adults
NICE has published its guide for commissioners of end-of-life care services, the latest in its series of good practice guides to support commissioners in designing high quality, evidence-based services to improve outcomes for patients and to help the NHS make better use of resources. Read more »
Safeguarding adults at risk of harm: a legal guide for practitioners
This guide produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence is aimed primarily at practitioners working in various settings for organisations involved in safeguarding. It is intended to serve as a pointer to the law and to how it can be used. Read more »