Resources: Palliative care
Hospice Information
Web: www.hospiceinformation.info
Hospice Information is a joint venture between
St. Christopher’s Hospice and Help the Hospices. It brings together the
experience and established reputation for high quality of the Hospice
Information Service at St. Christopher’s and the national remit and
innovative information developments of Help the Hospices. Includes 'find a
hospice' / palliative care service.
NHS End of Life Care Programme (EoLC)
Web: www.endoflifecare.nhs.uk/eolc
The NHS End of life
Care Programme (EoLC) was set up to improve care at the end of life for
all wherever they live. This site aims to support the programme by
sharing good practice, resources and information.
The Gold Standards Framework (GSF)
Web: www.goldstandardsframework.nhs.uk
The GSF is a systematic evidence based approach
to optimising the care for patients nearing the end of life in the
community. It is concerned with helping people to live well until the
end of life and includes care in the final year of life for people with any
end stage illness.
Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient
(LCP)
Web: www.mcpcil.org.uk/liverpool_care_pathway
The LCP Framework is a continuous
quality improvement framework for care of the dying irrespective of diagnosis
or place of death.
Preferred Priorities for Care (PPC)
Web: www.endoflifecareforadults.nhs.uk/eolc/eolc/current/CS310.htm
The PPC is intended to
be a patient-held record that will follow the patient through their path of
care into the variety of differing health and social care settings. Guidance
reference sheets for both the patient and carer and staff are available
explaining the use of the PPC.
The Open University
Web: http://openlearn.ac.uk
The Open University Learning Space gives free
access to course materials from the Open University. Among other topics the
‘health and lifestyle’ unit offers the following:
- Ageing and Disability: Transitions into residential care
- Moral and Ethical Principles in End of Life Care
- Living with death and dying
Palliative Initiatives in Neurological Care (The PINC
Project)
Web: www.suerydercare.org
Sue Ryder Care have piloted three nationally recognised end of
life Care Tools – Gold Standards Framework in Care Homes, Integrated
Care of the Dying Pathway and Preferred
Place of Care (now Preferred Priorities for Care). The outcomes will be published at the end of June
and will be available on the Sue Ryder Care website.
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