Palliative and End of Life Care
What is palliative care?
*Palliative care is an approach to treatment which aims to:
- Improve the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem of life-threatening illness
- Prevent and relieve suffering
- Identify, assess and treat pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual
- Affirm life and regard dying as a normal process
- Offer a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death
It is appropriate early in the course of illness, in combination with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications.
*This description is taken from the Palliative Care Zone on NHS Inform
The links below will take you to sources of more information on palliative and end of life care:
- NHSGCC Palliative Care
- Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care
- Palliative Care Scotland
- NHSGGC Bereavement
For more information about a particular condition, or if you are seeking specific support or guidance, you may wish to contact one of the organisations below:
- Alzheimer Scotland – Action on Dementia
- Breast Cancer Care Scotland
- British Heart Foundation Scotland
- British Lung Foundation Scotland
- Cancer Support Scotland
- Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland
- CLAN Cancer Support
- Cruse Bereavement Care
- Macmillan Cancer Support
- Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres
- Marie Curie
- MND Scotland
- Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland
- Pain Association Scotland
- Parkinson’s UK
- Roy Castle Lung Foundation
- Scottish Huntington’s Association
Palliative and End of Life Care Plan
Following our consultation, a report was prepared and submitted, along with the Palliative and End of Life Care Plan, to the Glasgow City IJB Performance and Scrutiny Committee on 21 February 2018. The Palliative and End of Life Care Plan was approved at this meeting