Record: Those attended, apologies, and date of meeting.
The aim:
- To develop a clear understanding of how the practice supports carers before and after death
- To continuously develop processes to improve support to carers
- To continue to develop the quality of care and support offered to carers
Principles
Task
- Consider who at the practice is involved/has contact with and carers supporting a person affected by advanced serious illness and/or end of life needs.
- Discuss the following questions as a group (and someone take notes on the key points):
- Each member of the team to offer suggestions of how the practice currently supports carers?
- How do different members of the team pick up and/or assess Carer's Needs? Consider both co-worker and client roles.
- What works well and what could be improved? Each person to discuss from their perspective.
- What gaps are there to offer holistic carers assessments and to support carers needs within the practice?
- What could be trialled to help improve:
a) the processes and
b) quality of care for carers?
- Each person (may help to group within roles) to agree what they will commit to trialing within their role to support this improvement.
- Set a timeline for the trial and for the review date.
- Review date to consider shared learning from trials, what happened, what worked well, what was less effective and what should be stopped (i.e. it did not work), adapted or continued.
- Set next review date.
Informing part of the evidence on Standard 3
- Holistic carers assessment
- Create criteria for audit