Response To Marie Curie Request July 2015 Ensure Your

response to marie curie request july 2015 ensure your staff are aware of their local palliative care teams- board wide review conducted in 2

Response to Marie Curie Request July 2015
Ensure your staff are aware of their local palliative care teams-
Board Wide Review conducted in 2013 across the Acute Operating
Division revealed the majority of staff knew how to access palliative
care advice in normal working hours , however less than half of the
staff knew how to access advice out of hours. To rectify this
deficiency
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All acute sites across NHS GGC moved to common electronic referral
system in 2014. This was accompanied by awareness raising across
the acute division.
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The areas identified in the review as having the least knowledge
and understanding had targeted education from their local
palliative care teams
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Palliative care posters were developed for each ward with referral
process and criteria in and out of hours highlighted
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A Palliative Care E Resource was developed and Launched in 2014
which highlights the referral criteria and processes for
specialist advice and input across care settings and is available
to all NHS GGC staff via a Staffnet page.
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Continual development of the existing Internet resource available
for professionals and the public. This site allows access to
information on palliative resources and service providers for
partnership agencies.
Provide Information about palliative care to your staff, patients and
their families. This is done in the following ways
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The Palliative Care E Resource gives rapid access to the Scottish
Palliative Care Guidelines and a variety of other information to
support generalist and specialist staff in their delivery of care
and is available to all NHS GGC staff via the Staffnet page.
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The Palliative Care - Greater Glasgow and Clyde website
http://www.palliativecareggc.org.uk/
provides information for professionals and the public, with hyperlinks
to a variety of useful resources. This site launched a Twitter Account
in 2014 which allows the website to publicise current, topical,
information for staff and the general public.
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A new booklet has been developed and launched in 2015 “
Information and Support for people caring for someone with a life
limiting illness” to give information and support about being a
carer for someone with a life limiting illness. This was developed
with and for carers.
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A short life working group is currently reviewing the existing
patient information leaflets used by the hospital specialist
palliative care teams with a view to this including a patient
centred, joint care plan. This will be piloted, with patients and
carers views being fundamental to its improvement.
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There is a variety of education available to staff across care
settings delivered in partnership with specialist teams, practice
development, higher education Institutions and our hospice
colleagues. This includes e-learning modules, needs led support at
practice level, lunch and learn sessions,½ and full day study days
and accredited modules up to master level. Our palliative care
practice development steering group (PCPDST) includes
representation from the local academic institutions, hospices,
practice development teams and other specialist and non specialist
staff. The PCPDST works to promote equitable access and provision
of education to all staff across NHS GGC and includes delivery to
health care support workers, facilities staff, allied health
professionals, nursing and medical staff.
Increase access to palliative care for anyone who needs it- our
referral criteria are based on need not diagnosis. We are monitoring
access to services for people with non- malignant disease and seeing a
small increase. The promotion of palliative care for all is further
promoted by the follwoing
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A number of initiatives are underway aimed at improving palliative
care for people with heart failure. These include a British Heart
foundation led project focused on development of the Heart Failure
Liaison Nurse’s (HFLN) role in supportive and palliative care,
joint working between specialists in palliative care and HFLN’s
and cardiologists in the acute setting, and access for heart
failure patients to outreach services from ACCORD hospice. These
initiatives are now being augmented by a joint Marie Curie Cancer
Care British Heart Failure Project Input to the Caring Together is
designed to develop a model of care that encourages a professional
inclusive approach to supportive palliative care in heart failure
across GG&C.
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Strengthening partnership working with the Motor Neurone Disease
team and providing input to their Managed care network.
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In relation to the palliative care needs of people with Non
malignant respiratory disease a palliative care subgroup of the
Respiratory MCN has been established and works collaboratively
with specials in palliative care to ensure that people with non
malignant respiratory disease in the last months of life receive
appropriate supportive and palliative care.
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Ongoing work with Renal Consultants in their outpatient clinics
promoting anticipatory care planning.
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The Palliative care MCN is about to launch a subgroup specifically
aimed at promoting the needs of those people with non-malignant
disease and will use the Marie Curie work to help inform its
progress.
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