Scottish care homes support teams ECHO
The network seeks to empower and support care home support team professionals in Scotland. Register to the network .
Objectives of the network:
- Improve the experience of living and dying in a care home through supporting the teams who work closely with nursing home front line staff.
- Develop a community of practice within care home support teams across Scotland.
- Enable care home support teams to empower care home staff in their local area to deliver, high quality, evidence based palliative and end of life care in the care home setting.
Curriculum
The curriculum setting session has taken place and the schedule and topics agreed for the network are below. Please note dates and times are fixed but topics may move around based on speaker availability.
| Date | Title |
| 19 March 2024 |
Understanding what makes dying in a care home unique? |
| 16 April 2024 | Teaching fundamentals of palliative care and the dying process in care homes |
| 21 May 2024 | Fundamentals stage 2 – equipping the workforce in current practice and updates, medications, mouthcare etc. |
| 18 June 2024 | OSCARS and after death debriefing |
| 16 July 2024 | Standardised education – supporting care homes to embed the framework for care home practitioners |
| 20 August 2024 |
Future care planning, escalation pathways – making space for conversations |
| 17 September 2024 | Quality improvement – models for improving practice in care homes |
| 15 October 2024 | Empowering courageous conversations |
| 19 November 2024 | Promoting visibility and clarity of ethical considerations to care home staff |
| 17 December 2024 | Wellbeing of care home support staff |
For more information please contact echo@mariecurie.org.uk.
