St Luke’s is launching a brand-new podcast to help open up the conversation about death and dying.
The St Luke’s education team are working in partnership with Livewell and Macmillan GP Facilitators from Plymouth, South Hams and West Devon to create a regular podcast for health and social care professionals centred around facilitating good end of life care. The podcast will cover a range of end-of-life care topics, offering top tips and tools to practitioners based on best practice guidance and day to day experience.
The idea came about following feedback from local healthcare professionals highlighting that there was a need for more readily accessible education resources aimed at palliative care practitioners, especially ones that suit our current busy lifestyles.
From this feedback the idea for the 15 minute ‘All about end of life care’ audio and video podcasts was born.
WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP
The NHS Devon Integrated Care Board (ICB) is supporting hospices to work collaboratively to deliver at a local level, a Devon-wide Palliative Care Education program to others working in primary care. So it made sense to work in partnership with Livewell and Macmillan GP facilitators on the podcasts in order to respond to the local educational need while also contributing to the Devon wide project.
The team have been working with Fresh Air Studios to initially develop a series of four podcasts with the hope to deliver more in the future.
The four podcasts the team initially plan to cover:
- Diagnosing dying and how to tell those who need to know
- Advance Care Planning
- Treatment Escalation Plans (TEPs and eTEPs)
- Anticipatory Prescribing
The podcasts can be listened to or watched anywhere at any time, whether driving to work, out for a walk or on the bus.
LISTEN NOW
Paula Hine, St Luke’s Head of Education, said: “We know that end of life care is just one area of care that busy community health and social care professionals are involved in and that they find it increasingly difficult to have the time to access education and training. We therefore wanted to provide some bite-size, easy to access resources which they can dip into as and when suits them.
“The sessions share not only the key ‘must do’s’ but also some useful and practical ways to overcome some of the day-to-day challenges that we face in practice when caring for patients and families at end of life. Although hosted on our website we can also send links to the resources when sending email alerts or updates so hopefully reaching people when they need the information and it is most relevant.”
You can listen to the first episode of the podcast ‘Diagnosing dying and how to tell those who need to know’ and access the relevant resources here.
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