Resources for professionals

Advance Care Planning

In 2020 Dorothy House has made Advance Care Planning a priority. We want to support the professionals in our community to have an up-to-date range of resources available for signposting.

Downloads:

• Community_CHAT_Bundle (PDF, 337 kB)
• Hospital_CHAT_Bundle (PDF, 316 kB)
• Planning Ahead - A guide for patients, families and carers (PDF, 271 kB)
• Planning Ahead - My Wishes (PDF, 556 kB)

COVID-19 and End of Life Care

Downloads:

• COVID-19 Prescribing guidance (PDF, 373 kB)
• Practical care for a dying person (PDF, 210 kB)
• Coping with Dying Leaflet (PDF, 20 MB)
• Ward 2 - Admission Criteria (PDF, 56 kB)
• COVID-19 Community symptom control and End of Life Care for GPs (PDF, 585 kB)

Hospice UK Conference 2019

In October 2019, Dorothy House Hospice Care presented five clinical posters at the Hospice UK Conference. All of the posters can be downloaded and viewed here.

Downloads:

• Compassionate Companions (PDF, 660 kB)
• Change - Non-Palliative Lymphoedema (PDF, 436 kB)
• Good Word - 24hr Advice Line (PDF, 647 kB)
• Keep Moving - Physiotherapy (PDF, 475 kB)
• Living Well (PDF, 536 kB)

Patient Led Assessment of Nutritional Care – PLANC

This is the original report published by FONS in May 2016 and details our work up to that point. However, we have continued to develop the tool in the light of patient and staff feedback. For the latest version of PLANC and its algorithms, for more information about or to enquire about training in the PLANC tool, please contact Jill Souter on 01225 722 988 or email jill.souter@dorothyhouse-hospice.org.uk

Downloads:

• FONs Report (PDF, 2 MB)
• FONS Report Summary (DOCX, 38 kB)
• Nutrition Conference Flyer (DOCX, 878 kB)