Palliative and end of life care programme
How is Healthcare Improvement Scotland helping NHS boards
improve care for people who have advanced medical conditions with
little or no prospect of a cure, and to help their families to
cope?
Providing support to improve services for
palliative and end of life care is an important area of work for
us.
Here is some of the work that we’re currently
doing:
- Helping the implementation of
adult, children and young people resuscitation policies across
NHSScotland
- Developing indicators for
palliative and end of life care (indicators are measures that help
NHS boards see how they are performing against objectives)
- Developing guidelines for
palliative and end of life care
To help us realise these
projects, we call upon the knowledge and experience of others. We
are working closely with the
Scottish Government Health Directorate, Scottish Partnership
for Palliative Care and
NHS Education for Scotland to support quality assurance and
quality improvement.
“How people die remains in the memory of those
who live on”
Dame Cicely Saunders
“How we care for the dying must surely be an
indicator of how we care for all our sick and vulnerable
patients”
Mike Richards, National Clinical
Director End of Life (2007)
