Palliative care communication

Handling UKCPA conference communications and the adjudication process requires a scrupulous process to make it work for members. UKCPA has developed a housestyle and is a transparent process of adjudication and feedback to assure the final quality of work presented and published. This applies equally to the adjudication process for the four industry sponsored awards, AstraZeneca Travelling Fellowship Award, the four GlaxoSmithKline Poster Awards, the Pharmacia Pharma-coeconomics Award and the Wyeth Education and Training Award. New awards for 2002 are Unichem Com-munity/Primary Care Pharmacy Award, Napp Palliative Care Award and the Merck Pharmaceuticals for Medicines Management Award. 

Experienced social workers with access to pastoral care. Patient and family education and counseling, palliative care and discharge plantung. Liaison with equipment vendors, home cate nurses, home team, local community hospital, local family physician, ambulance and power comparues Recreational Therapy... 

The patient s general practitioner and any community support staff should be involved together with the multidisciplinary team in planning the patient s discharge. If the patient is going home for palliative care, a palliative care consultant and support team should be included. 

Management of the dying process, including withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment Referral to appropriate hospital and community resources Quality palliative and end-of-life care in all treatment settings Responsibility of the professional caregiver... 

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