Background to service. 2.1 The National Council for Hospices, the Specialist Palliative Care Services and the Scottish Partnership Agency for Cancer and Palliative Care and the Scottish Partnership Agency for Cancer and Palliative care have adopted the following definitions: • General Palliative Care: care delivery with a palliative approach is a core skill that every health care professional, in whatever setting, should possess if dealing with patients with incurable progressive disease. • Specialist Palliative Care: care delivered by a multi-professional team. The team works collaboratively with those providing a palliative approach and deals with more complex problems to ensure that patient and family needs are met. 2.2 In 1999 the Scottish Executive Department of Health issued guidance under NHS ▇▇▇(1999)78 : Community Pharmacy: Model Schemes for Pharmaceutical Care and NHS (Primary Care) Act 1997 with the purpose being two fold: • To ensure continuity of supply of agreed palliative care medicines and devices for drug delivery • To create a network of palliative care community pharmacies to provide advice and information to patients, carers, GPs, nurses and other community pharmacies.
Appears in 2 contracts
Background to service. 2.1 The National Council for Hospices, the Specialist Palliative Care Services and the Scottish Partnership Agency for Cancer and Palliative Care and the Scottish Partnership Agency for Cancer and Palliative care have adopted the following definitions: • General Palliative Care: care delivery with a palliative approach is a core skill that every health care professional, in whatever setting, should possess if dealing with patients with incurable progressive disease. • Specialist Palliative Care: care delivered by a multi-professional team. The team works collaboratively with those providing a palliative approach and deals with more complex problems to ensure that patient and family needs are met.
2.2 In 1999 the Scottish Executive Department of Health issued guidance under NHS ▇▇▇(1999)78 : Community Pharmacy: Model Schemes for Pharmaceutical Care and NHS (Primary Care) Act 1997 with the purpose being two fold: • To ensure continuity of supply of agreed palliative care medicines and devices for drug delivery • To create a network of palliative care community pharmacies to provide advice and information to patients, carers, GPs, nurses and other community pharmacies.. Since then this has become incumbent on Boards to continue to deliver a palliative care service appropriate to their population
Appears in 2 contracts