P-55 High fidelity simulation training in end of life care; one chance to get it right

End-of-life care in psychiatry: 'one chance to get it right'.

End-of-life care has been given increasing importance within healthcare settings. In June 2014, the Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People published One Chance to Get it Right. This nationally accepted guidance replaces previous end-of-life care pathways such as the Liverpool Care Pathway and outlines how dying patients should be managed irrespective of setting. Increasingly, patients...

One chance to get it right.

Recently I chaired a conference hosted by the National Council for Palliative Care focusing on the issues of comorbidity and dying with dignity. Being a conference chair is one sure way of concentrating your mind and thoughts on speaker presentations because you have to pick up the threads, link speakers together and summarise the conference.

One Chance to Get it Right: understanding the new guidance for care of the dying person.

BACKGROUND Following criticism of the Liverpool Care of the Dying Pathway (LCP), widely used to guide care of dying people in British health-care settings, the UK Government set up an independent review which in 2013 recommended that use of the LCP be discontinued. In response, the Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People, a coalition of a wide range of stakeholders, recently published ...

Human values in health care: trying to get it right.

Business Process Simulation : How to get it right ?

Although simulation is typically considered as relevant and highly applicable, in reality the use of simulation is limited. Many organizations have tried to use simulation to analyze their business processes at some stage. However, few are using simulation in a structured and effective manner. This may be caused by a lack of training and limitations of existing tools, but in this paper we will ...