National End of Life Care Programme Newsletters
Team Briefing is a bi-monthly news letter published by the National End of Life Care Programme.
Subtitled "The care of all dying patients must improve to the level of the best", it continues the series of EoLC News Update...
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Where an article is considered appropriate we will try to include it in the next newsletter issue, however we reserve the right to make editorial changes.
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15 Feb 2010: Team Briefing - Issue 18
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Team Briefing: Issue 18
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In this issue:
- Team Briefing
- Focus on the workforce
- Route to Success
- New deputy directors
- Going monthly
- News update
- Summit calls for guaranteed 24/7 care
- Facilitators’ network takes shape
- Competency workbook launched
- Education bodies highlight end of life care
- Rise in use of care pathways at home
- North West pilots quality markers
- News in brief
Theme: Developing the workforce
- How e-learning is spreading the word – and raising skill levels
- When and how can you access e-ELCA?
- Occupational standards give new focus to core competences
- Partnership working – a recipe for end of life care success
- How improving the environment improves end of life care
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15 Dec 2009: Team Briefing - Issue 17
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Team Briefing: Issue 17
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In this issue:
- Team Briefing
- Making sense of dementia
- E-learning launch
- Locality registers
- News Update
- Award for end of life care project
- Dementia Gateway launched
- Few people talk about wishes for death
- Most dementia sufferers "worse off" in hospital
- Communication Skills Pilots
- AMBER care in hospitals
- News in Brief
Theme: Dementia care
- End of life care for people with dementia
- The Palliative Care for Dementia project in Croydon: an update
- Top award for nursing home palliative care group
- Using arts to engage people with dementia
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15 Oct 2009: Team Briefing - Issue 16
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Team Briefing: Issue 16
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In this issue:
- Team Briefing
- Liverpool Care Pathway
- Training DVD
- Welcome to Katie and Margaret
- Pathway plans
- Dying Matters
- News Update
- News in Brief
Theme: Social care
- Bridging one great divide as life nears its end
- Interview with new Social Care Lead
- Lancashire’s seamless service
- Foundation degrees offer social care staff new opportunities
- How Luton is raising the bar and widening choice
- A new education strategy for South East London
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15 Aug 2009: Team Briefing - Issue 15
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Team Briefing: Issue 15
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In this issue:
- Team Briefing
- So far so good for the strategy
- New resource pack
- Routes to Success
- News Roundup
Theme: Community services
- How to transform your community services
- Narrative-based assessment: reaching the parts others can't reach
- Advance Care Planning: spreading the word
- Extra care housing and end of life care
- Nottinghamshire's pathway breaks ground
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15 Jun 2009: Team Briefing - Issue 14
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Team Briefing: Issue 14
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In this issue:
- Team Briefing
- Developing competences: an important milestone
- Communication skills pilots
- We need your help!
- News Roundup
Theme: From community engagement to the new quality markers
- Pharmacy’s vital role in good palliative care
- Quality markers are a big step forward
- End of life care pathway for kidney patients
- The toolkit that could change out of hours care
- Community guide aims to transform end of life care
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15 Apr 2009: Team Briefing - Issue 13
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Team Briefing: Issue 13
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In this issue:
- Team Briefing
- Advance care planning - new guide
- E-learning project
- DVD launch
- Coalition starts work
- Conference dates
- News Roundup
Theme: End of Life Care tools
- End of Life Care tools - an update
- The National Gold Standards Framework Centre
- Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying patient (LCP)
- Preferred Priorities for Care
- A forward planning tool for adults with learning disabilities
- St Christopher’s schools project
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15 Feb 2009: Team Briefing - Issue 12
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Team Briefing: Issue 12
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In this issue:
- Team Briefing
- Commissioning for end of life care
- Support for workforce
- Communication skills
- Dementia strategy launch
- What’s on the website
- We’re now bimonthly
- News Roundup
Theme: Commissioning
- Collaborative commissioning in North Central London
- Service maps in end of life care
- Supporting carers
- Who can die at home?
- Hospice at Home: a vital cog in the wheel
- Resources
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15 Dec 2008: Team Briefing - Issue 11
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Team Briefing - Issue 11
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In this issue:
- Team Briefing
- Progress report on the Strategy
- Death, dying and society
- End of life care pathway
- Care in different settings
- Supporting carers and families
- Workforce
- Measurement and research
- Making change happen
- News Roundup
Theme: Care Homes
- Choosing where to die:
- New standards for supportive and palliative care
- Open discussion on death and dying
- Education and mentorship
- Community matron for care homes
- The DALE project
- Dementia:
- Palliative care for dementia
- CSCI spotlights dementia care
- Implementing quality care:
- My Home Life
- Championing older people
- Case study: Standing up for dignity
- Study into end of life care in care homes
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15 Aug 2008: Team Briefing - Issue 10
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Team Briefing - Issue 10
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In this issue:
- Team Briefing
- The strategy has arrived!
- Sheila, Anita and Isabel join the team
- Darzi’s focus is on equality
- Pursuing a theme
- National strategy explained
- News Roundup
Theme: User Engagement
- How to involve patients and carers
- Listening to the experts
- ‘We do have our uses!’, Cynthia Benz
- Working with older people, Amanda Clarke
- ‘I really love what I’m doing’, Janet Ross
- ‘We’re people, not just nuisances’ St Christopher’s User Forum
- Valerie Anderson’s top award
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15 May 2008: Team Briefing - Issue 9
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Team Briefing - Issue 9
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In this issue:
- Darzi Reivew
- End of Life Care Strategy
- New DVD narrated by ITN reporter Helen Wright - Good end of life care
- How to plan for good care after death
Theme: Care after death
- Care of the deceased
- Organ donation
- Certification of death
- Mortuary facilities
- Bereavement care
Plus a news round
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15 Dec 2007: News Update - Issue 8
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News Update - Issue 8
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In this issue:
- Caring from the NHS — Decisions relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Marie Curie Delivering Choice Programme: A revolution in end of life care
- National guidelines - The assessment of pain in older people
- Anchor's end of life care scheme wins national award
- National dementia strategy update
- Help the Hospices - Call for abstracts
- Reflection from a district nurse on preferred place of care
- DH Information Prescriptions - Piloting Programme Interim Report
- My Home Life programme
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15 Apr 2007: News Update - Issue 7
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News Update - Issue 7
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In this issue:
- Preferred Place of Care in Care Homes
- Gold Standards Framework
- Liverpool Care Pathway
- The Introduction of the End of Life Care Pathway in the Intensive Care Unit
- Improving ‘End Of Life’ Care for people with learning disabilities
- 2007 Hospice and Palliative Care Directory
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15 Feb 2007: News Update - Issue 6
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News Update - Issue 6
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In this issue:
- National End of Life Care Strategy
- LCP Framework – Continuous Quality Improvement Programme
- Gold Standards Framework
- Motor Neurone Disease and Preferred Place of Care
- An End of Life Care Education Initiative — 'Macmillan Carers Project': Cancer and Palliative Care Education Workshops for paid domiciliary carers
- Marie Curie Delivering Choice Programme - Helping patients in Lincolnshire to stay at home
- Help the Hospices: Care for the Carers of the Terminally ill
- Help the Aged - Opening the door: helping people to lead their own dying
- A new programme of study designed for health and social care practitioners, managers and researchers working in the field of palliative and end of life care
- Sandwell Hospice at Home Service
- Pan Birmingham Palliative Care Network - Supportive Care Pathway
- National Council for Palliative Care - Specialist palliative care workforce survey
- The Importance of Communication Skills Training in End of Life Care
- Sue Ryder Care - Palliative initiatives in Neurological Care
- NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement - Making the Shift
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15 Oct 2006: News Update - Issue 5
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News Update - Issue 5
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In this issue:
- UCLAN - PPC, Advance Care Planning and Data Protection
- Liverpool Care Pathway
- Gold Standards Framework - Spread, Measures, News and Developments
- CSCI produce guidance for palliative and end of life care within all care homes
- Preferred Place of Care Project in Lancashire & South Cumbria
- A Spiritual Perspective
- National Service Framework for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Palliative and end of life care for patients with dementia in a care setting with nursing
- Caring for care home residents at the end of life
- New online resource for end of life care in Heart Failure
- Britain’s first professor of Hospice Studies
- Preferred Place of Care Launch Colchester June 16th 2006
- Preferred Place of Care and Social Services
- Preferred Place of Care in Cheshire and Merseyside
- Congratulations to Liz Clements
- Burdett Trust for nursing
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15 Jul 2006: News Update - Issue 4
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News Update - Issue 4
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In this issue:
- Mainstreaming of Gold Standards Framework (GSF) Level 1 through Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF)
- Preferred Place of Care (PPC)
- Liverpool Care Pathway
- Hospice Information
- Improving ‘end of life’ care in care homes
- Implementing an Integrated Care Pathway for the last days of life – a quality approach
- Developing Community Hospitals
- End of life care in care homes
- Everybodies business: –An Introduction to the Care Services Improvement Partnership’s National Older People’s Mental Health Programme
- Improving care of the dying patient and the family
- Patient Information Pathways
- Palliative care after stroke - Part of the programme at the 1st UK Stroke Forum Conference
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15 May 2006: News Update - Issue 3
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News update - Issue 3
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In this issue:
- Our health, our care, our say
- Preferred Place of Care
- Liverpool Care Pathway
- GSF Update
- E-News
- NSF For Long-Term Conditions
- NHS Live & the Benefi ts of Registering the End of Life Care Project
- RCN Palliative Nursing Forum
- Enhancing the Healing Environment
- Macmillan Support and Advocacy Programme: Supporting User Involvement in the NHS
- Palliative Care Services launched in Lincolnshire
- NHS Direct
- World Hospice and Palliative Care Day: 7th October 2006
- GSF Implementation and Audit Tools
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15 Dec 2005: News Update - Issue 2
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News update - Issue 2
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In this issue:
- Growing Awareness
- Gold Standards Framework
- Preferred Place of Care
- Liverpool Care Pathway
- National Kidney Federation
- Help the Hospices
- Sue Ryder Care
- Care Home baseline work
- Listening to the voices
- English Community Care Association
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15 Aug 2005: News Update - Issue 1
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News Update - Issue 1
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In this issue:
- Facilitator/Manager training workshops
- Care Homes
- Partnership Working
- Preferred Place of Care
- Liverpool Care Pathway
- Gold Standards Framework
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- NHS Gloucestershire - End of Life Care: Newsletter 7 (PDF)
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The purpose of this NHS Gloucestershire PCT newsletter is to raise the profile of end of life care by informing readers about local and national end of life care issues and developments, promoting the message that end of life care is everyone’s business.
(NHS Gloucestershire, January 2010)
