Caring Together
We are working in partnership with Marie
Curie Cancer Care and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde on a five-year
programme called Caring Together.
Caring Together aims to improve the quality of, and access to,
palliative care for any patients in the advanced stages of heart
failure.
Palliative care means preventing and relieving
suffering, and improving the quality of life for patients and their
families who are facing the problems associated with advanced
illness.
Caring Together
supports the Scottish Government's action plan for
palliative care services, Living and Dying Well. This calls for a
more equitable provision of end of life care services for patients
with any advanced, progressive or incurable condition across all
care settings.
Objectives
Caring Together aims to develop
pioneering models of palliative care which:
- meet the needs of patients and carers
- complement the optimal management of heart failure (and other
diagnosed conditions)
- promote equity of access to palliative care for heart failure
patients
- acknowledge the patient's preferences in place of care,
including home
- enable increased choice of place of care for patients – for
example in hospital, hospice, care home and at home
- improve coordination of care among stakeholders
Caring Together will be independently evaluated. This will help
us to further find out the palliative care needs of patients in the
advanced stages of heart failure.
We will also be looking at whether a programme
like Caring Together can be applied elsewhere in Scotland and the
rest of the UK.
For more information please email caringtogether@bhf.org.uk