Management of common symptoms for people approaching the end of their life can be challenging. What are we doing to support professionals? In order to ensure that they have the right guidance to support their patients a Palliative Care Clinical Practice Summary has been developed covering the main problems that people might encounter. This supports […]
People’s Voice The North West Coast Clinical Network Palliative and End of Life Care People’s Voice Group operates as a collaborative group of patient, carer and public representatives who use their collective knowledge and life experience to consider palliative and end of life issues.They assess Network wide issues that directly affect patients and their families. […]
NHS England’s National Clinical Directors for Dementia and End of Life Care, together with Clinical Fellow Elena Baker Glenn, examine the stark findings of a recent national end of life care intelligence network briefing on dementia: Death and dying are emotive subjects at the best of times and there has recently been interest and publicity […]
Leading Change A Children’s Nurse at Rainbows Hospice has created a new service to help and support families across the East Midlands region who experience the death of a baby before, during or shortly after birth – forging links across services and raising the awareness of the end-of-life-care services available from Rainbows. Following a successful […]
Membership board members are: David Webb – Chair, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, NHS England Yousaf Ahmad, ICS Chief Pharmacist and Director of Medicines Optimisation, Frimley Health and Care ICS Laura Angus, Chief Pharmacist, Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership ICS Diane Ashiru-Oredope, Lead Pharmacist HCAI, Fungal, AMR, AMU & Sepsis Division, UK Health Security […]
The Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Health and Wellbeing Alliance (HW Alliance) is a partnership between sector representatives and the health and care system. It is a key element of the Health and wellbeing programme, enabling the sector to share its expertise at a national level with the aim of improving services for all communities. […]
The Six Steps to Success Programme has been developed in the North West by the Cheshire and Merseyside Palliative and End of Life Care Network and the Greater Manchester, Lancashire and South Cumbria Strategic Clinical Network. The programmes aim to enhance end of life care through facilitating organisational change and supporting staff to develop their […]
We exist to enable patients, professionals and organisations to work together, across the West Midlands, on large and lasting programmes of quality improvement in five areas of major healthcare challenge. We aim to achieve the best outcomes for our population now and for future generations. We do this by bringing the right people and expertise […]
Case study summary The Coast and Country Primary Care Collaboration (CCPCC) is a group of nine practices working together as a primary care network across Suffolk. They started collaborating in 2017, aiming to tackle local pressures across general practice and provide a better, more joined up service for their patient population. Organisation Coast and Country […]
Summary In Hull and East Riding, the team working as part of City Health Care Partnership CIC are at the beginning of their frailty ward journey. Their aim is to implement a safe and effective virtual ward, enabling them to care for people in the place they call home. This requires integrating acute frailty emergency […]