Homelessness and Palliative Care Toolkit
This website also hosts the IMPROVE Community of Practice resources and the Homelessness and Palliative Care Network sessions and other key films and resources.
The Victoria & Stuart Project
The toolkit was created together with people with learning disabilities, families, learning disability support staff, and healthcare professionals. It includes resources and approaches to support staff with end of life care planning with people with learning disabilities
Toolkit for Compassionate End-of-Life Care – Irish Hospice Foundation
Irish Hospice Foundation created the Toolkit for Compassionate End-of-Life Care to provide healthcare workers with information, guidance, language and resources that will support them in caring for those who are dying and their family and friends.
Hospice UK – Bereavement Guide for Line Managers
HUK’s Compassionate Employers team has developed a free guide for line managers to help employers and line managers respond with confidence and compassion.
Toolkit for palliative care needs in children
Together for Short Lives has published updated categories of children’s palliative care, giving professionals a shared framework to identify which children may benefit from a palliative care approach.
Palliative and End-of-Life Care Competency Assessment Tool
The Competency Assessment Tool has been developed by a multidisciplinary group, currently practicing within the Health & Social Care Trusts, the independent and the voluntary sector within Northern Ireland. The competencies within the tool can be interpreted and applied across the range of sectors, settings and disciplines which provide palliative and end-of-life care. They are inclusive of all adult populations, regardless of diagnosis, culture or need. The Assessment Tool will assist individuals to build on the skills they already have, shaping professional practice in accordance with the document Living Matters: Dying Matters, a Strategy for Palliative and End of Life Care for Adults in Northern Ireland (Department of Health and Social Services and Public Safety, 2010).
Your Life and Your Choices: Plan Ahead
The Your Life and Your Choices: Plan Ahead booklet explains how you can plan ahead for your future care.
Supportive & Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT™)
The SPICT is used to identify people at risk of deteriorating and dying with one or more advanced conditions for palliative care needs assessment and care planning.The SPICT website allows users free downloads of SPICT and guides to using it in clinical practice with collaborating partners across the UK and internationally- Europe, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, S America and Africa.