Care of the Deceased Patient and their Family: A Guideline for Nursing Practice in Northern Ireland
‘Care of the Deceased Patient and their Family: A Guideline for Nursing Practice in Northern Ireland’, provides guidance to nurses and midwives working in any setting on how to achieve the delivery of safe, sensitive, effective and person-centred nursing care to a deceased person and their family, friends and carers.
Definition and Competencies for Key Worker Function
The aim of this paper is to provide a high level definition for Key worker function and competencies.
Palliative Care Aide Memoire
The process of assessment can help to produce a common understanding of needs. The assessor should be any experienced health or social care professional, who normally undertakes assessments as part of their role. The purpose of this aide memoire is to act as a prompt when assessing and reviewing patients with palliative and end of life care needs across conditions.
National Audit of Care at the End of Life (NACEL) – Fourth Round
The National Audit of Care at the End of Life (NACEL) in Northern Ireland was commissioned by the Northern Ireland Public Health Agency, on behalf of the Regional Palliative Care in Partnership Programme.
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.
End of Life Care Operational System (ELCOS)
ELCOS aims to ensure that people who have been identified as possibly in the last year of life have details of their personalised care plan and preferences for care, including any Advance Care Plan available as part of their care record.
Guidance for the Management of symptoms in adults with Heart Failure at the end of life
This regional guidance has been developed for healthcare professionals managing heart failure symptoms at end of life.
Northern Ireland Assembly’s Committee for Health Report on Access to Palliative Care Services
The Assembly’s Health Committee has launched a report into the findings of its Inquiry on Access to Palliative Care Services in Northern Ireland. Link also includes the Department of Health’s response.
‘Living Matters : Dying Matters’: A Palliative and End of Life Care Strategy for Adults in Northern Ireland
The vision of this Strategy is that any person with an advanced non-curative condition, lives well and dies well irrespective of their condition or care setting. This requires a philosophy of palliative and end of life care that is person-centred and which takes a holistic approach to planning, co-ordinating and delivering high quality reliable care, enabling patients to retain control, dignity and crucially, choice in how and where their care is delivered to the end of their life.
The Palliative Care in Partnership (PCiP) programme
The Palliative Care in Partnership (PCiP) programme was officially formed in Northern Ireland in September 2016. The website provides an overview of the programme including information about palliative care, news and associated resources.