SIG Special Interest Groups

Palliative and End of Life Care SIG

Aim: to facilitate collaboration across disciplines and across countries to enhance our understanding, adoption and evaluation of palliative and end of life care as a key component of people centred integrated care.

Activities: The SIG will provide a platform for members to share implementation experience, highlight examples of good practice, signpost practical resources, and agree and collaborate on research, education and evaluation priorities for integrated palliative care. Members will shape the scope of SIG activities and outputs. These may include:
• Webinars and online peer support
• Good practice case studies
• Practical resources – guidance and tools
• Study visits
• Blogs
• Evidence reviews
• Consensus documents
• Collaborative action research
• Benchmarking

Current topics: The initial focus of the SIG will be an integrated and public health approach to palliative and end of life care to improve the health and wellbeing of people facing potentially life-limiting illness, loneliness, dying, death and bereavement. Innovative examples are Todos Contigo, led by the Newhealth Foundation in Seville, and Compassionate Inverclyde, a collaborative programme in Scotland; both building social movements around people-led, assets-based approaches to compassionate citizenship and integrated palliative and end of life care. Our second topic will be to share experiences and evidence of integration that really works for people in Advanced Care Planning (ACP), supporting choices and preferences to be realised and central to decision making at both practice and organisational systems level. Our third topic will be to share experience on the development and use of person centred outcome measures in Palliative and End of Life Care.

Get involved:The SIG is for practitioners, managers, researchers, students, and policy makers engaged in planning, designing, delivering or evaluating palliative and end of life care in different health and care systems. If you have an interest in palliative and end of life care, can share your practical experience or resources, or have a question, challenge or suggestions for future SIG activities please contact Anne Mills, SIG facilitator at Anne.Mills@hospice.org.im

This Special Interest Group (SIG) has an international membership with 131 members and still growing.  If you would like to be on the mailing list for this group, please email Marie Curran: IFICScotland@integratedcarefoundation.org and you will receive SIG updates, IFIC Scotland newsletters and information on our webinars.

Facilitated by:

Marie Curran
Coordinator of IFIC Scotland Special Interest Groups
International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)

E: IFICscotland@integratedcarefoundation.org

SIG Lead:

Anne Mills

Palliative and End of Life Care SIG Workplan 2020 – 2022 

Activities

Timescale / Date

Lead(s)

Actions for 2022

Webinars or eforum

ICM Series 7 webinar Oct 2022 

Oct 2021:  Improving Integrated Practice in Palliative and end of Life Care Webinar – topic resource here 

 

Feb 2021: Advances in End of Life Care Symposium 

 Presentations and flash report here 

 

Oct 2020: Hospice Influenced Care in Community Settings – Recording and topic resource  here 

Anne Mills 

Anne Mills 

Anne Mills 

Strengthen SIG links with the International Collaborative for Best Care for the Dying Person  

Good Practice Case Studies

added to SharePoint here 

Marie Curran

Ongoing

Guidance, Tools and Reviews

added to SharePoint here 

Marie Curran

Ongoing

Study visits / Twinning  

Explore with LMI systems 

Blogs 

Nov 2020: Scholl Academic Centre: Comprehensive Needs Assessment for the Isle of Man Plan for Integrated Palliative and end of life care

Scholl Academic Centre  

Prompt more blogs  

International Conference Participation  

May 2022 – IC22 Odense, Denmark 

May 2021: ICIC21 Virtual Conference  

Sep 2020: IFIC Virtual Conference  

 

Posters and Presentations can be accessed here 

Collaborative Publications / Research 

2020:  Journal of Integrated Care Special Issue Vol. 28 No. 4  

Editorial and 8 papers via SIG networks  

https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/1476-9018/vol/28/iss/4 

IFIC Scotland and Scholl Academic Centre 

Education and Training

Project Echo sites involved in SIG