Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines
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The Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines offer guidance to healthcare professionals and social work colleagues, when supporting adults with palliative care needs in non-specialist settings. The Scottish Palliative Care Strategy defines care around dying as: "Holistic care of a person of any age who is dying and in the last hours, days or few weeks of their life, that focuses on comfort and includes people close to them who are supported into bereavement."
Holistic care includes spiritual and social care - see the following sections: Spiritual distress (existential crisis) and Social work in palliative care.
Paediatric Palliative Care
If you require guidance for a child please access the Association for Paediatric Palliative Medicine Formulary: APPM Master Formulary
Patient information resources
Educational health and social care resources
- Palliative Care Learning Hub - free to those with TURAS access, but password requirement
- End of Life Aid Skills for Everyone (EASE) | Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief - a free public education course on how to support family or friends who are caring, dying or grieving.