1. A Christian perspective on End of Life care

2. A Jesus perspective on End of Life care

3. GMC Guidance: In Clinical Practice Good Medical Practice (15a) 15. You must provide a good standard of practice and care. If you assess, diagnose or treat patients, you must: a. adequately assess the patient’s conditions, taking account of their history (including the symptoms and psychological, spiritual, social and cultural factors), their views and values; where necessary, examine the patient. Wholeness in healthcare

4. Spirituality usually includes reference to a power other than self, often described as ‘God’, a ‘higher power’, or ‘forces of nature’. This power is generally seen to help a person to transcend immediate experience and to re-establish hope. This power is generally seen to help a person to transcend immediate experience and to re-establish hope. NICE Guidance on Palliative Care 2004: Spiritual Support Services Wholeness in healthcare

5. Spiritual values and skills are increasingly recognised as necessary aspects of clinical care. British Medical Journal Editorial 2002;325 Spirituality and clinical care Staff should be trained in assessing spiritual needs. NICE Guidance on Palliative Care 2004: Spiritual Support Services Wholeness in healthcare

6. Body Mind Spirit --------------------------- ? Wholeness in healthcare?

7. Body Mind Spirit -------The ‘scientific worldview’------ Wholeness in healthcare?

8. ‘Scientific’ world-view Dualism Materialism Medical Materialism (Hippocrates) Rationalism Epicureanism Hippocrates. ‘Father of Medicine’ 460-377 BC Wholeness in healthcare?

9. Personhood: A Biblical perspective learning from the rainbow

10. natural Body emotional existential psychosomaticmental physical Spirit Mind material cultural environmental social trans-rational rational supernatural mystery spiritual transcendent miracles Personhood: A Biblical perspective learning from the rainbow

11. natural Body emotional existential psychosomaticmental physical spirit Mind material cultural environmental social trans-rational rational supernatural mystery spiritual transcendent miracles Personhood: A ‘scientific’ perspective

12. natural Body emotional existential psychosomaticmental physical spirit Mind material cultural environmental social trans-rational rational supernatural mystery spiritual transcendent miracles Personhood: A ‘scientific’ perspective

13. natural Body emotional existential psychosomaticmental physical Spirit Mind material cultural environmental social trans-rational rational supernatural mystery spiritual transcendent miracles Whole Person End of life care: A Biblical perspective

15. Chaplains as part of the primary healthcare team Honouring Personhood in Patients The added value of Chaplaincy in General Practice

16. The Association of Chaplaincy in General Practice www.gpchaplaincy.com

17. A Jesus perspective on End of Life care