1. Palliative and End of Life Care Alliance in South Tyneside Patient Reference Sub-Group meeting Thursday 7th June 2018

2. Our structure South Tyneside Palliative Care Strategic Alliance
Strategic Direction and support
South Tyneside Palliative Care Leaders Group
Programme implementation and oversight
Work stream 1
Identifying the Palliative Care patient
Work stream 2
My Palliative Care
“the right support at the right time”
Work stream 3
The last
Days of life
Education & training

3. 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, families & 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
Acknowledge that we need to understand the needs of stakeholders
Marketing & Communication

4. How we will do this: Person-centred co-ordinated care
Organisational and supporting processes in place
to support new ways of working
Engaged, informed individuals, families and carers
Health and care professionals committed to partnership working
Person-centred
co-ordinated care
We will deliver our vision by:
1 of the principles of the alliance is focussing on the person, their families and the community – keeping them at the centre of everything we do
This is why we are here today – to get you support with the left hand pillar in this slide
We are engaging with our 3rd sector agencies and the people that make up our community
We need to make sure we increase the voice of the local community by incorporating patient/families and carers experience into our improvement work
Commissioning
- making sure resources are in the right place at the right time

5. Patient involvement in redesigning a new unit
Some examples of patient involvement
Patient involvement brings an understanding, for all health & care professionals, as to what true value is in the eyes of the person receiving the care.
Without this, how do we really know what matters most?
New
unit
Just to add some context as to how they could potentially get involved ??
Patient involvement in redesigning a new unit

6. Get involved……
We would like authentic input from our local community to shape and develop solutions to key interventions across the Palliative & End of Life Care in South Tyneside
Keen to explore today how we do this
This could involve a flexible approach depending on your feedback
Find your own pace with the level of involvement
What do people think?
Could deliver a tailored training/awareness session along with any carers/volunteers

7. Thank you!
Any questions?