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Palliative Care Pathways Standards: Service Self Assessment Tool
ACT has developed a service self-assessment tool, designed to assist agencies to carry out an assessment in relation to the services provided across care pathways. This self assessment tool is based on the ACT Integrated Multi-agency Care Pathway for Children with Life-limiting or Life-threatening Conditions, and aims to identify the aspects of best practice within a local area. The stages of the audit are:
Stage One - Assess service provision against standards and goals;
Stage Two - Produce and implement an action plan aimed at achieving best practice;
Stage Three - Review achievements towards best practice;
Stage Four - Disseminate improvements and/or review the action plan.
This audit provides a process of considering current practice and enables the identification of good practice, and those areas of practice which need further development.
The Goals and Standards included in the tool correlate to those in our Integrated Multi-Agency Care Pathway.
Click on this link to download a PDF of the Palliative Care Pathway Standards: Self Service Assessment Tool.
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Although it is acknowledged that there are similarities in the principles of palliative care for adults and children, it is crucial to emphasise underlying differences. Often service users, providers and commissioners often make assumptions about the two sectors. ACT has now developed a factsheet to clarify the similarities and differences between children's and adults palliative care services.
Read on to find out how ACT defines these areas of work; you can also download a PDF of "Children's and Adults Palliative Care: Similarities and Differences" here. |
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Many families, practitioners and professionals tell ACT that lots of the terms used to describe children's palliative care can be confusing, and sometimes bewildering.
ACT, in consultation with our members and other agencies working in the field, has developed a clear set of definitions to help guide our work. We hope that these definitions will bring more clarity to the field and that these will be adopted by all our members and supporters.
A full account of all our Children's Palliative Care Definitions and Descriptions are given below; you can also download a PDF here.
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