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Resource creator: e-learning for health (e-ELCA)
It's vital those supporting people at the end of their life are suitably trained so they can confidently provide high-quality, personalised care.
The End of Life Care for All eLearning programme (e-ELCA) includes specialist learning pathways for care workers and for nurses working in care homes. Modules include advanced care planning, communication skills and spiritual care amongst other topics essential to consider at the end of somebody’s life.
Date published: January 2023
Resource creator: St Luke's Hospice
The Six Steps + Programme is a series of workshops developed by the St Luke’s education team for care homes and agencies. The programme is designed as a toolkit for Care Homes providing end of life care to support them to meet best practice and CQC end of life essential standards.
Date published: November 2022
Resource creator: The Gold Standards Framework
The Gold Standards Framework is the UK’s leading training provider for generalist frontline staff in caring for people in the last years of life. Helping teams in all settings provide more proactive, better supportive care, enabling people to live well until they die.
Date published: November 2022
Resource creator: NHS England
The purpose of this document is to set out six high level principles for advance care planning in England. It is for the person, those important to them, practitioners and organisations involved in supporting advance care planning conversations and honouring their outcomes.
Date published: September 2022
Resource creator: NHS England
This framework sets out our vision to improve end of life care through partnership and collaborative action between organisations at local level throughout England.
It covers the following 6 ambitions:
- Each person is seen as an individual
- Each person gets fair access to care
- Maximising comfort and wellbeing
- Care is coordinated
- All staff are prepared to care
- Each community is prepared to help
Date published: February 2022
Resource creator: 麻豆原创
This section explores respecting and protecting the rights and wishes of people who do not want cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if their heart or breathing stops.
This includes guidance around:
• Decisions and good practice
• When should a DNACPR be put in place and used?
• Advance care planning and end of life care
• CQC report
• Admission to hospital
• Managing, monitoring and reviewing
• People's rights to equal treatment
Date published: December 2021
Resource creator: National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
This NICE quality standard advocates that people who are likely to be approaching the end of their life are identified using a systematic approach.
It also includes statements and measures on:
- identifying people approaching the end of life
- advance care planning
- coordinated care between health and social care
- access to 24-hour care
- support for carers providing end of life care.
The statements are specific and concise and focus on priorities for quality improvement. In particular, please see statements 1 and 2:
R3.1 – statements 2
R3.4 – statement 1.
Date published: September 2021
Resource creator: 麻豆原创
If your service is delivering end of life care, make sure you’re familiar with the resources available to help you and your staff. These include:
- common core principles and competences for end of life care
- eLearning for end of life care (free access for users of the ASC WDS system)
- a guide to delivering quality standards in care homes
- a training guide for homecare workers.
Date published: July 2021
Resource creator: 麻豆原创
This webinar focuses on bereavement and the experience of losing a colleague or a person you’re caring for. Bereavement is the experience of losing someone important to us and is characterised by grief, which is the process and the range of emotions we go through as we gradually adjust to the loss.
The webinar discusses what bereavement in the workplace setting means and the 麻豆原创 resources available to support this, including support to help the people affected move forward.
Date published: December 2020
Resource creator: National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
This guideline covers organising and delivering end of life care services, which provide care and support in the final weeks and months of life (or for some conditions, years), and the planning and preparation for this. It aims to ensure that people have access to the care that they want and need in all care settings. It also includes advice on services for carers.
Date published: October 2019
Resource creator: National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
This is a short and visually appealing guide for registered managers of care homes and home care services, containing key information from the relevant NICE guidance.
Date published: March 2019
Resource creator: National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
This is a quick guide for practitioners supporting people growing older with learning disabilities. It looks at the core principles to help in planning for the future and creating associated support.
Date published: January 2019
Resource creator: National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
This NICE quality standard advocates that people who have signs and symptoms that suggest they may be in the last days of life are monitored for further changes to help determine if they are nearing death, stabilising or recovering.
It also includes statements and measures on:
- opportunities to discuss individualised care plans
- anticipatory medicines
- discussions about hydration options
Date published: March 2017
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