Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines
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The Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines offer guidance to healthcare professionals and social work colleagues, when supporting adults with palliative care needs in non-specialist settings.
The Scottish Palliative Care Strategy defines care around dying as: "Holistic care of a person of any age who is dying and in the last hours, days or few weeks of their life, that focuses on comfort and includes people close to them who are supported into bereavement." Palliative Care - Publications
Internationally, the WHO defines palliative care "as an approach that improves the quality of life of patients – adults and children – and their families who are facing problems associated with life-threatening illness. It prevents and relieves suffering through the early identification, impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, whether physical, psychosocial, or spiritual." Palliative care - World Health Organization (WHO)
Paediatric Palliative Care
If you require guidance for a child please access the Association for Paediatric Palliative Medicine Formulary: APPM Master Formulary
Patient information resources
Educational health and social care resources
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free to those with TURAS access, but password requirement.
Palliative Care Learning Hub