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End of life care strategy: hospice recommendations
- Author:
- HELP THE HOSPICES
- Publisher:
- Help the Hospices
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Government seeks to prepare a comprehensive strategy to develop and progress end of life care. It notes that the intention of the strategy is to establish the means whereby the Government’s commitments on palliative care outlined in its election manifesto can be delivered together with those on end of life care.
Identifying carers' needs in the palliative setting: guidance for professionals
- Author:
- HELP THE HOSPICES
- Publisher:
- Help the Hospices
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- London
There are an estimated half a million people in the UK who provide unpaid care for a relative or friend with a life-limiting or terminal illness at any one time. Every year thousands of people take on a caring role, whereas others find that this role has ended. This guide has been developed by an expert working group, and provides a framework for developing a carers’ assessment process. It offers advice on how to identify carers and gives an overview of the assessment methods currently used by palliative care providers. The purpose of this document is to guide palliative care professionals in developing a process to identify carers’ needs that is relevant to their local context and provide, or refer/direct carers to, support services. This process is referred to as ‘carers’ assessment’ throughout the guide.
Are you there?: reviewing specialist palliative care inpatient admissions criteria
- Authors:
- NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PALLIATIVE CARE, HELP THE HOSPICES
- Publisher:
- National Council for Palliative Care
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This discussion document, published by the National Council for Palliative Care and Help the Hospices, looks at the importance of using specialist palliative care beds in the most efficient way possible. It looks admission and discharge policies and processes and also highlights the relationship of specialist palliative care inpatient services with other services. Case studies are included, as are examples of different approaches to ensure services maintain quality care whilst maintaining efficiency, such as supportive discharge and out of hours services. Early recommendations are also included.
Mapping England's Health and Wellbeing Boards' vision for dying people
- Author:
- HELP THE HOSPICES
- Publisher:
- Help the Hospices
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 7
- Place of publication:
- London
An assessment, based on research conducted in 2014, of the extent to which England’s 152 health and wellbeing boards consider the needs of local people approaching the end of life in joint health and wellbeing strategies (JHWSs). The methodology used a red, amber and green (RAG) rating of boards based on the attention they gave to end of life care in their JHWSs. The study found that less than half of boards have explicitly considered the needs of dying people while a quarter have considered related issues to relevant groups without explicitly mentioning end of life care. Nearly a quarter of boards failed to mention either directly or indirectly people approaching the end of life. In 2012 only a fifth of boards failed to mention people approaching the end of life. 7 per cent of boards failed to publish a strategy or make one publicly available. The report recommends that all boards explicitly consider the needs of dying people in their JHWSs to bring health, social care and public health systems together in response to the increasingly complex co-morbidities of the ageing population and that they should work with hospices and palliative care providers as well as with patient and community groups to co-produce JHWSs. (Edited publisher abstract)
The commissioning of hospice care in England in 2014/15
- Author:
- HELP THE HOSPICES
- Publisher:
- Help the Hospices
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 16
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents the findings of a survey among member hospices in England to gather a picture of how the new NHS commissioning arrangements, formally established in April 2013, are impacting on the commissioning and contracting of services locally. The survey found: increasing complexity in the commissioning environment for hospices; ongoing uncertainty around the sustainability of statutory funding; continuing funding cuts and frozen budgets for many hospices; increase in staff time taken up or additional costs incurred in responding to NHS commissioning or contracting requirements; less than a third of hospices surveyed described palliative and end of life care as a high or medium priority for their health and wellbeing boards; and lost opportunities to work in partnership. The report calls for the NHS and other statutory commissioners to seek to engage with hospices as key local partners in understanding and working to meet the needs of local communities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental Capacity Act: e-learning site
- Author:
- HELP THE HOSPICES
- Publisher:
- Help the Hospices
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Place of publication:
- London
The Mental Capacity Act came into force on 1 October 2007. It has a significant impact both for patients with impaired mental capacity, and those caring for them. That includes all health and social care professionals engaged in palliative care, whatever their setting, be it a specialist unit or hospice, an acute hospital, a care home, or primary care.