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Publication - Strategy/plan

Palliative care strategy: Palliative Care Matters for All

Published
2 October 2024
From
Minister for Public Health and Women's Health
Directorate
Chief Operating Officer, NHS Scotland Directorate
Topic
Health and social care
ISBN
9781836015383

We are committed to ensuring that everyone who needs it can access well-coordinated, timely and high-quality palliative care, care around dying and bereavement support based on what matters to them. Our draft strategy sets out our approach to achieving this.

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Footnotes

1. Palliative care (who.int)

2. Additional paper: Lived Experience and Public Views

3. Additional paper – HIS Gathering Views

4. Additional paper: Population Data and Research

5. Additional paper: Service Mapping Survey

6. Additional paper: Population Data and Research

7. Additional paper: Lived Experience and Public Views

8. University of Glasgow - Research - Research units A-Z - Glasgow End of Life Studies Group - Our Research - Dying in the Margins

9. Social Security Scotland - Chief Medical Officer's guidance for clinicians completing a BASRIS form

10. How compassionate communities are implemented and evaluated in practice: a scoping review | BMC Palliative Care | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

11. Trucanta Report.indd (palliativecarescotland.org.uk)

12. Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief: End of Life Aid Skills for Everyone (EASE) (goodlifedeathgrief.org.uk)

13. Last Aid | Highland Hospice

14. Additional paper: Service Mapping Survey

15. Computer screening for palliative care needs in primary care: a mixed-methods study | British Journal of General Practice (bjgp.org)

16. The Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance Status (AKPS) scale: a revised scale for contemporary palliative care clinical practice

17. Illness trajectories of incurable solid cancers | The BMJ

18. Additional paper: Service Mapping Survey

19. A casemix classification for those receiving specialist palliative care during their last year of life across England: the C-CHANGE research programme (nihr.ac.uk)

20. Additional paper: Lived Experience and Public Views

21. Additional paper: Population Data and Research

22. Integrating lived experiences of out-of-hours health services for people with palliative and end-of-life care needs with national datasets for people dying in Scotland in 2016: A mixed methods, multi-stage design - PMC (nih.gov)

23. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation decisions - integrated adult policy: guidance - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

24. Health: National Future Care Planning Working Group - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

25. Lancet Commission on the Value of Death (thelancet.com)

26. Additional paper: Lived Experience and Public Views

27. UK Bereavement commission report

28. Children's Hospices Across Scotland Strategic Plan 2024-28

29. Paediatric palliative screening scale as a useful tool for clinicians' assessment of palliative care needs of paediatric patients: a retrospective cohort study | BMC Palliative Care | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

30. BAPM framework on Family Integrated Care | British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society - BMFMS

31. Project ECHO | Highland Hospice

32. TfSL-A-Guide-to-Children's-Palliative-Care-Fourth-Edition-5.pdf (togetherforshortlives.org.uk)

Contact

Email: Palliativecareteam@gov.scot

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