South Tyneside Palliative and End of life Care OUR VISION In the last stage of my life I can expect to receive personalised care and support delivered by coordinated teams working together honestly and consistently to help me and the people important to me. Good Care, Good Death, Good Memories Identifying the Palliative care patient My Palliative Care “The right support at the right time” The last days of life Key interventions: Improve the use of Palliative Care registers in primary care Develop and implement a generalist tool for identifying patients in the last year of their life Increase the Identification of patients with palliative care needs in non-cancer, minority and hard to reach groups Key interventions: Improve the FastTrack process Streamline the co-ordination and referral process along the palliative care journey Work in partnership with our third sector services to help raise awareness of services available to support patients and carers Key interventions: Improve access to appropriate medication at the end of life Support patients to achieve their preferred place of death Ensure patients & carers have a positive experience in their last days of life Primary Drivers (Work streams) = key areas we need to address to achieve our vision Secondary Drivers (Key Interventions) = Actions we need to take to successfully implement Primary Drivers Education & workforce development Improve access, induction and maintenance of appropriate EoL palliative care training and education for all stakeholders Support the education/training needs of the above Marketing & Communication

South Tyneside Palliative Care – Plan on a page Change ideas Agree final format of Palliative care register template Improve the use of Palliative Care registers in primary care Work stream Agree implementation date with CCG Identifying The Palliative care patient Develop and implement a generalist tool for identifying patients in the last year of their life Increase the Identification of patients with palliative care needs in non-cancer, minority and hard to reach groups Change ideas = Changes to support implementation of secondary drivers (i.e. 3 key interventions)