Identify, assess and plan

Our group has been instrumental in the development of, and/or support the following key resources to help identify, assess and plan provision for palliative care.

Tools to help identify, assess and plan
Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines
Supportive & Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT™) Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT™)
The IAHPC List of Essential Practices in Palliative Care is now available in 9 languages IAHPC list of essential practices in palliative care
Gold Standards Framework Gold Standard Framework of care used by most primary care teams in the UK to identify, assess and plan care for people in their last year of life Gold Standards Framework website
Palliative Care Outcome Scale Well validated tool that briefly assesses physical, psychological, social and spiritual well being and information needs in patients in the last year or days of life Pallliative Care Outome Scale website

Tools to help identify, assess and plan

Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines

Supportive & Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT™)

Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT™)

The IAHPC List of Essential Practices in Palliative Care is now available in 9 languages

IAHPC list of essential practices in palliative care

Gold Standards Framework

Gold Standard Framework of care used by most primary care teams in the UK to identify, assess and plan care for people in their last year of life

Gold Standards Framework website

Palliative Care Outcome Scale

Well validated tool that briefly assesses physical, psychological, social and spiritual well being and information needs in patients in the last year or days of life

Pallliative Care Outome Scale website

This article was published on 26 May, 2016