New Supportive Care Plan is now live in Unity

July 19, 2021

We are delighted to announce that the newly refreshed Supportive Care Plan is now live in Unity to help as we care together for people in their last months, weeks and days of life in line with Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of nursing guidance.

Particular thanks go out to Neel Patel for consultant input for making sure clinicians get the information they need when you need it has been a big part of the design work. Trainees Elise Davies and Amy Hough have also worked alongside us and the Unity architect to make it intuitive both when initiated and on a day-to-day basis. Also Laura Pitt, Pall Care CNS, who has worked tirelessly checking the system especially the nursing functionality.

There is now an ‘SCP’ ward round which will auto populate with important information from the SCP such as preferred place of death and documentation from the new nursing SCP assessments to alert doctors to uncontrolled symptoms.

For further details please check out the Supportive Care Plan intranet page here. The new trainee doctors will be doing this training pre-August arrival as will all new nursing staff and existing colleagues can access as needed.

We are also planning to pull together a reporting dashboard soon where you will be able to see by ward, speciality and clinical group how well we are all doing for patients and their families at this tough time.

Please contact anna.lock@nhs.net if you find bugs in the system or have any questions or queries.