Top Tips for Best Practice

Ensure GSF is extended to non-cancer for all patients in the last year of life.
Advance Care Planning (ACP) should be offered early to all appropriate patients.
Practice meetings - cover all aspects using checklist/ SCR1 encourage note-taking and action plan to focus effort.
Encourage reflective practice and use to inform future education, especially following admissions or death.
Liaison with wards can help discharge planning and reduce length of stay.
Ensure practices have a system in place to offer bereavement support and advice following all deaths.
Ensure EOLC features in all new staff job descriptions and inductions.
Include GSF, palliative register coding, ACP, in training provided by you as a specialist or as part of your service

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