This page is intended for the use of healthcare professionals to find materials you may want to use when supporting a person and/or a carer with palliative or end of life care.
This page has links to support services and information to share on topics such as advance care planning, ReSPECT and bereavement & grief.
Training Resources:
Click the following links for more details about training resources:
ACP tools to help you
The following tools can support you to have conversations:
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REDMAP Framework (6-step guide to Future Care Planning conversations): REDMAP Framework – SPICT
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The importance of listening (infographic): The-importance-of-listening-3.jpg (800×2000)
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You may find this video helpful: Palliative care from diagnosis to death - YouTube
The public page has lots of helpful information about understanding bereavement and grief, and signposting to local and national bereavement support. You can view this information here (towards the bottom of the page).
Education for professionals in 2025
PLEASE NOTE: THE EMAIL ADDRESS FOR BOOKING COURSES AND ANY OTHER EDUCATION ENQUIRIES IS scn-tr.scftpct-education@nhs.net
We are excited to introduce the 2025 Children & Young People’s Palliative Care Education & Training Package for South Yorkshire, designed to equip healthcare professionals with essential skills and knowledge in paediatric palliative and end-of-life care.
This year’s program hosted by Sheffield Children's Foundation Trust Palliative Care Team and Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice offers comprehensive training and expert-led education to enhance the quality of care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions. Whatever your role, our education package provides tailored learning opportunities to support best practices in this unique field of work.
For full details of what is on offer, key topics covered, and how to book the face to face sessions please take a look at the this brochure.
We look forward to supporting your professional development and improving palliative and end-of-life care for children and young people across South Yorkshire.
Please feel encouraged to share this amongst teams and colleagues.
You can read the report by Healthwatch Sheffield here.
The aim of the Heart Failure Academy is to support healthcare professionals in recognising the signs and symptoms of heart failure, enabling more timely specialist assessment and diagnosis. This ensures that patients receive the right treatment at the right time, leading to better outcomes for people living with heart failure in Yorkshire and the Humber.
For full details and training Heart Failure Academy
Early identification of patients who may be in the last 12 months of their life is important because this gives people the opportunity to be involved in planning for their future care.
This could include thinking about the type of care they would like or would not like, where they would like to be cared for, who should be involved in their care and can help with planning for loved ones.
The following tool can support you to identify patients:
- SPICT (Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool): SPICT – Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool
The Macmillan learning and communications hub offers free training and events for health and social care professionals working with people who are palliative, not only for people who have cancer. Just create a log in and sign in at Account
The Enhanced Palliative & End of Life Care toolkit includes training on the following:
- Pain management in palliative and end of life care
- Common palliative and end of life care symptom management
- Communication in palliative and end of life care
- Palliative care emergencies
- Person-centred care at end of life
- Understanding and enriching agency in palliative and end of life care
Click here for more info.
What is ReSPECT?
The Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care & Treatment (ReSPECT) is a process that creates individual recommendations for a person’s clinical care in emergency situations, including cardiorespiratory arrest. The process involves a conversation that:
- Develops a shared understanding of a person’s condition, circumstances, and future outlook
- Explores the person’s preferences and records the agreed clinical recommendations for their care and realistic treatment in the event of a future emergency in which they cannot make or express decisions at the time.
Check out the new South Yorkshire ReSPECT Champions website here, where you can find out more information about:
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The ReSPECT Process
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South Yorkshire ReSPECT Champions Network
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ReSPECT Quality Improvement ECHO sessions for 2025 (direct link to the details and booking links here)
You can find frequently asked questions about ReSPECT here.
- The Thinking Ahead Project has created educational resources to increase awareness on what matters to people in their last year of life, reflecting on faith and culture.
- Thinking Ahead stories provides 8 scenarios of people’s experiences shared by people of African, Indian, Pakistan, Chinese ethnicity with the following faiths: Muslim, Sikh, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian.
- There is an ‘Engaging effectively about advance care planning with people from ethnicity diverse backgrounds’ E-learning for Health training package: NHSE elfh Hub
- There is a toolkit that you can use as an educational resource: Stories-about-what-matters-to-people-at-the-end-of-life.--A-guide-for-learning-.pdf
- For E-learning for Health modules, please contact your organisation’s Champion or Lead for Palliative & End of Life Care, to access the courses for your role.
Project ECHO – Online and in person training courses with a case study focus – available across South Yorkshire
You can access the All Age Strategy via the links below:
The DALLI Toolkit is aimed at those providing care and support to adults with a life-limiting illness from any background who may be affected by domestic abuse.
This includes:
- Health and social care practitioners
- Managers and administrative staff
- Local Authority teams
- Allied Healthcare professionals
- Third sector organisations
- Volunteers.
This toolkit is designed to comprehensively cover how to identify and respond to domestic abuse in the life-limiting illness context. It is designed to be used flexibly to meet differing needs and each section can be stand alone, or be used in conjunction with the others.
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Victoria and Stuart toolkit training End of Life Care Planning Toolkit| Victoria and Stuart
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(2) Webinar recording – How can we involve people with learning disabilities in end of life care planning - Macmillan – create a log in and sign in to hear the one hour webinar.
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Kingston University London, in partnership with Paradigm and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), has created a helpful guide for ‘End of life care planning with people with a learning disability’
