End of Life Care

I had such a busy day with 3 visits in the morning and a meeting at St.Christopher's Hospice
for the End of Life Care leads/champions. It was nice to get away from the office
and have a time off to think and reflect on practice. I never get the moment to just
ponder at my desk, I am either answering a call, typing, talk to calleagues, out on a visit
or in a meeting (Social Workers are known to be always in a meeting and
the telephone line is always engaged! Yes, we do talk a lot...)


The End of Life Care lead project finished in May this year but it was nice for the
two boroughs, Lambeth and Southwark, to meet up and discuss the progress so far.
These were the only boroughs in London and  6 other projects
across the country. The work was also written in Community Care magazine.
Click here to see the article.


There are still lots of gaps and the senior management to take 'action'
to implement the good practice for people in there most vulnerable moments.
All talks and no action is still apparent but at least the awareness has grown
in the teams and people are asking the difficult questions.