Contacts
Contact:
Judi Byrne
End of Life Care Programme Manager
Organisation:
Sue Ryder Care
114 - 118 Southampton Row London WC1B 5AA United Kingdom
Tel:
07920 701562
Email:
Website:
Case study:
11 May 2010
Improving end of life care for individuals with neurological conditions at Sue Ryder Care
Key points
- With slight adaptations Sue Ryder Care has found the end of life care tools highly successful for people with neurological conditions
Sue Ryder Care is adapting the Gold Standards Framework, the Preferred Priorities of Care and the Integrated Care of the Dying Pathway – for use with residents in the centre’s six neurological care centres across the country.
The programme, which involves both qualified and non-qualified staff, is being supported by the Sue Ryder Care hospices.
The care centres will work with their local health care providers to deliver co-ordinated care to residents in the last stage of their lives.
The aim is to help more residents die in their chosen care setting and to reduce the number of residents being admitted inappropriately to hospital in the last days of their life.
Following a successful six-month pilot the full programme is now being rolled out to all six Sue Ryder neurological centres in England.
It will also help inform education and training programmes in Sue Ryder Care hospices
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