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This site is part of the Palliative Care Matters network of sites. It is aimed at health-care professionals working in the palliative care field. Are you a Patient or Carer?If you are a patient or carer and would like to comment on the care you have received from your local palliative care team, you can do this at a website run by iWantGreatCare. Palliative Medicine Handbook The full text of the Palliative Medicine Handbook is freely available on-line. Other items of general interest (i.e. outside Wales) can be found on the main website of Palliative Care Matters.
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New GMC guidance for doctors, Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making, has been published and comes into effect on 1 July 2010. This guidance replaces the booklet Withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging treatments (2002). It expands on the guidance in Consent, patients and doctors making decisions together, which sets out the principles on which good clinical decisions should be based, and provides a framework for good practice when providing treatment and care for patients who are reaching the end of their lives.
Download here or visit the GMC web page.
After six months of review, consultation, pilot and further editing, the 2010 Integrated Care Pathway (ICP) for the Last Days of Life is now ready for use.
The original goals of the pathway remain unchanged, however the document has undergone a total ‘face-lift’ and has shrunk to just 11 pages. The criteria for starting the pathway have changed and the document now carries a prompt for considering tissue and organ donation.
It is expected that the document will be accessed electronically – from Trust intranets and this web-site. This should help to reduce the use of out of date pathways, so all old pathways should be destroyed and 2010 document used from now on.
Initial feedback for the new ICP has been very positive and we look forward to further feedback at the autumn benchmarking/support meetings in Cardiff, St Asaph and Powys.
The Wales Palliative Care Implementation Board is hosting a ‘One Wales’ Conference at the Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend on June 18th 2010.
The Conference will provided an opportunity to hear the work of the Implementation Board and the changes achieved through the Clinical Group in Wales. The breakout sessions provide an opportunity to highlight the challenges and offer solutions to delivering Palliative and End of Life Care into the next decade, with a particular focus on non-cancer care.
Download a flyer and registration form here.
Cardiff University is offering an exciting, innovative short course in Palliative Care specifically written for GPs. The course is University accredited and involves approximately 13 hours (3 individual days) of ‘face to face’ teaching over approximately 4 weeks. The course is immediately clinically applicable to all patients with life limiting illness. Macmillan grants are available to subsidise the cost. Read more...
A report and overview of the Last days of Life Care Pathway by the Care Pathway Implementation team is now available to download from this site.