palliative care: are we doing enough?
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Palliative Care: Are we doing enough?. Louise Burgess and Josie Daines – Wright June 2012. Aims. The Christie Hospital and Haematology Transplant Unit Definition of Palliative Care Advance Care Planning and Palliative Care Tools The North West End of Life Care Model - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Palliative Care: Are we doing enough?
Louise Burgessand
Josie Daines – Wright June 2012
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Aims
• The Christie Hospital and Haematology Transplant Unit
• Definition of Palliative Care
• Advance Care Planning and Palliative Care Tools
• The North West End of Life Care Model
• Palliative Care and Haematology
• Our Review
• Recommendations
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Palliative Care• “an approach that improves the quality of life of • patients and their families facing the problems • associated with life threatening illness, through
the • prevention and relief of suffering by means of
early • identification and impeccable assessment and • treatment of pain and other problems, such as • physical, psychosocial and spiritual”
• (WHO 2002)
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What is Advance Care Planning?
• Discussion between patient and professional
• Addresses patient’s:
- understanding of illness and prognosis
- concerns
- values or personal goals for future care
- preferences for care
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Palliative Care Tools
• Advance Directives – Including Not for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
• Gold Standard Framework (GSF)• Sheffield Profile for Assessment and Referral to
Care (SPARC) Holistic Assessment• Preferred Priorities for Care• Rapid Discharge Pathway• Liverpool Care of The Dying Pathway
•
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The North West End of Life Care Model
Last Days of Life
First Days after Death
1 year1 year and
beyond
Advancing disease
Bereavement
6 months
1 2 3 54
Death
Increasing decline
Gold Standards Framework (GSF)
Preferred Priorities for Care (PPC)
Rapid Discharge Pathway (RDP)
Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying (LCP)
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Palliative care and Haematology
• Infrequent palliative care (NICE 2003)
• Palliative care in Haematology is under researched (Grundy 2006)
• Complex and uncertain Haematology pathway (Howell 2010)
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Objectives
• To review the palliative and end of life care of • Allogeneic Transplant patients that died between • the period of March 2010 and October 2011
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Method
• Retrospective review of 12 Allogeneic Transplant patients that died between 2010 and 2011
• Information reviewed:- Length of stay - Place of death - Implementation of Liverpool Care Pathway - Involvement of Hospital Palliative Care
Support Team
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Results• Length of stay – 18 – 164 days, median 50
days
• 3 out of 7 patients died on the Liverpool Care of the Dying Pathway
• 2 out of 12 died in their preferred place of care
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Place of Death
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Cause of Death
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Reason of Referral to Palliative Care Support Team
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Key Results
• Referrals to palliative care support team were for advice on end of life care
• Patients with palliative care team involvement were transplant related mortalities
• Patients with relapsed disease had no referrals made to the palliative care support team
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Conclusions and Recommendations
• Palliative and supportive care needs going unrecognised and and specialist referrals not being made (NICE 2004)
• The use of service models to ensure that patients, their families, and carer, all receive support and care to help them cope with cancer and its treatments at all stages (NICE 2004)
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Recommendations
• Check patient understanding of their prognosis
• Utilising SPARC holistic assessment tool at key stages of a patients disease
• Encourage health care professionals in the use of the Gold Standard Framework
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References• Department of Health (2000) The NHS Cancer Plan: a plan for investment, a plan for
reform. London• Department of Health (2008) End of Life Care Strategy: Promoting High Quality Care
for All Adults at the End of Life. The Stationery Office, London• Grundy M (2006) Nursing in Haematological Oncology 2nd Edition. Bailliere Tindall
Elsevier. Edinburgh• Howell DA, Roman E, Cox H, Smith AG, Patmore R, Garry AC and Howard MR
(2010) Destined to die in hospital? Systematic review and meta-analysis of place of death in haematological malignancies. BMC palliative care 9:9
• Kelly D, Ross S, Gary B and Smith P (2000) Death, dying and emotional labor: problematic dimensions of the bone marrow transplant nursing role? Journal of Advanced Nursing. 32:4 pp 952 – 960
• National Institute for Clinical Excellence (2003) Improving Outcomes in Haematological Cancers: The Manual. London
• National Institute for Clinical Excellence (2004) Improving Supportive and Palliative Care for Adults with Cancer. London
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