Useful Resources
Please find below a list of links to various documents,
resources and guidelines relating to End of Life Care, which you
may find useful.
Marie Curie Cancer Care is a leading provider of end of life
care in Scotland. The care they provide is free of charge and
available to anyone with a terminal illness, not just cancer. Click
here to find a summary of
Marie Curie's work in Scotland.
Marie Curie Support:
Marie Curie Nurses provide practical and emotional support
for patients and the person caring for them in their own
home. To find further information on the Nursing Service, advice on
how to get a Marie Curie Nurse and for an outline of the
differences between various specialist nurses, please visit the
Nursing in your home section of the webpage.
If you are living with a life-limiting illness and have been
told that you may not get better, Marie Curie can help you and you
can find information how by visiting the support
webpage.
Marie Curie Hospices are vibrant, homely places offering a range
of different activities and services to help people with cancer and
other life-limiting illnesses achieve the best possible quality of
life. For information on how a hospice can help you, how to get
hospice care and show you can support Marie Curie's Hospices,
please visit the Hospice
Care webpage.
Marie Curie has developed a variety of resources for patients,
carers and families of people with cancer and other terminal
illnesses. There are a range of
leaflets and booklets which offer general health-related
information to people with life-limiting illnesses and advice in
helping families and friends cope with the death of a loved
one.
Living and Dying Well: A National action plan for palliative
and end of life care in Scotland
The
Living and Dying Well action plan was introduced in 2008 to
ensure that good palliative and end of life care is available for
all patients and families who need it, in a consistent,
comprehensive, appropriate and equitable manner accross all care
settings in Scotland. The action plan is intended for all health
and social care policy makers, planners and practitioners, and is
designed to produce achievable and measurable changes which will
ensure quality improvement and enhance patient care and carer
experience. The action plan advocates an approach to care which is
person centred and based on neither diagnosis nor prognosis but on
patient and carer needs. It advocates an approach which recognises
the diversity of life circumstances of people who will need
palliative and end of life care and which is responsive to these
circumstances, whether they relate to age, disability, gender,
race, religion/belief or sexual orientation.