This website is no longer being actively maintained. Some of the material has been moved and is now hosted on the the End of Life Care section on the NHS Wales Health Collaborative website. The full link is: https://collaborative.nhs.wales/implementation-groups/end-of-life-care/
Advance care planning
Consider (including review of existing plans):
- care preferences (consider implications for care packages and AHP input – see anticipated care needs)
- preferred place of care when dying
- potential loss of capacity: Welsh Assembly Government mental capacity assessment tools
- planning for dependents, e.g. making a will, guardianship: Department of Justice guidance on Power of Attorney, memory boxes etc.
- preferred treatment choices/ceiling of care/DNACPR status: DNACPR guidelines
- organ donation: who to contact: organ donation co-ordinators in Wales, and general information on organ donation
- donation of body for research: information on how to donate
Available tools include:
Gold Standards Framework Thinking Ahead and Preferred Priorities of Care
GMC guidance on end of life advance care planning