Palliative care and the supportive care

November 20, 2020

We all have different ideas and thoughts about how we would want to be cared for in the last months and days of life.  Clinicians at the Trust can access the supportive care plan to help us give personalised care to people with advanced life-limiting illnesses. It provides a structure so that we can ensure that that our patients goals are at the centre of decision-making in the last months, weeks and days of their life.

It is set out in a document in either paper form (for community colleagues) or electronically (Unity or SystmOne1) and guides healthcare professionals to consider with the patient if some treatments are beneficial or not and to plan care appropriately as well as meeting symptom control needs. There is a guide clinicians can refer to in order to help with those decisions. It can be adapted and added to as people’s goals change.

Making sure it’s completed in full is critical and you can find a quick reference guide on Connect and training for doctors and nurses on using is available on the Unity training portal. Any questions or comments please get in touch with the Connected Palliative Care Team.