Many people want to be able to plan ahead, so that if in the future they cannot make decisions or do things, their wishes will be known. This is called Advance Care Planning (ACP). Although it is part of official NHS policy (NHS End of Life Care Planning), ACP is hardly ever done...
Advance care planning in residential aged care facilities. Contemp Nurse 2007;27:141e151.Blackford, J., Strickland, E., & Morris, B. (2007). Advance care planning in residential aged care facilities. Contemporary Nurse, 27, 141-151. Retrieved from http://www.bradford.nhs. uk/...
Patients cannot 'choose' to not be ill or avoid dying of their disease, but deserve be involved in decisions about their care. UK Mental Capacity legislation heralded a long-overdue change, encapsulated in the NHS slogan 'no decision about me without me'; everyone must to do everything to ...
Sixty male participants will be recruited from seven NHS and voluntary organisation community substance use treatment services in England (London,n=3; the West Midlands,n=1; and the South West,n=1), Wales (Monmouthshire,n=1) and Scotland (Lothian,n=1). Sets of up to 10 men per treatment...
ACP in NHs tend to be medically focused at the expense of residents' psychosocial care-planning needs. Widespread uptake of ACP in Sweden could be useful in the national effort to adopt more person-centred care in Swedish healthcare.KEY POINTSWhile advance care planning has been implemented in ...
O-32Developing, implementing and evaluating advance care planning (ACP) in norwegian nursing homes (NHS) – a mixed methods study[Article in German]doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2015-000978.31Trygve Johannes Lereim SævareidLillian LillemoenLisbeth Thoresen...
Advance end-of-life healthcare planning in an acute NHS hospital setting: development and evaluation of the Expression of Healthcare Preferences (EHP) document. Age Ageing. 2009; 38(1):81-85. [PubMed: 19029089]Schiff R, Shaw R, Raja N, Rajkumar C, Bulpitt CJ. Advance end-of-life ...
Advance end-of-life healthcare planning in an acute NHS hospital setting; development and evaluation of the Expression of Healthcare Preferences (EHP) documentdoi:10.1093/ageing/afn235Rebekah SchiffRory ShawNadia RajaChristopher Bulpitt
Caring for patients outside their preferred place incurs significant costs to the NHS and recently published national statistics cite 54% of NHS complaints are around end of life care. Yet as is pointed out in the national End of Life Care Strategy, "In the absence of open discussions, it ...
NHS Scotland recommends using the electronic palliative care summary (ePCS) as an aniticipatory care plan (3). A 1 year collaborative project aimed to identify ways to support implementation of ACP in three clinical settings: hospital, social care home and a GP practice. In each setting the ...