1. 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

2. 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)