Palliative Care Matters for All: strategy consultation

Closes 10 Jan 2025

Opened 2 Oct 2024

Contact

PalliativeCareTeam@gov.scot

Overview

This five year strategy (2025-2030) builds on our previous palliative care strategies, 'Living and Dying Well: A national action plan for palliative and end of life care in Scotland (2008)' and 'Palliative and end of life care: strategic framework for action (2015)'. 

It sets out our aims and intended outcomes, with specific actions for each outcome. Through these outcomes and actions, we expect that adults and children, as well as their families and carers, will have better experiences of palliative care; care when someone is dying; and bereavement support.

We would like to hear what you think about the overall strategy and about what we are planning to change and improve. We will consider all of the responses we receive, and will use these to inform the final strategy and the delivery plans for each of the actions to be taken forward.

The draft strategy and supporting documents are available on the below links:

This consultation contains 16 questions across four sections, with space for comments.

You can save your answers at the bottom of each page and come back later to fill in the rest of the questions. It should take around 15-20 minutes to complete the survey. 

The consultation paper contains full background information for this consultation. You may find it useful to read or refer to this while responding.

Useful information about responding to this consultation

Once you have submitted your response, you can enter your email address to get a pdf copy of your answers sent to you.

On the 'About You' page at the end of this consultation, organisations will have the opportunity to tell us more about their work and/or how their response was informed.

After the consultation has closed there will be a few months delay before any responses are published. This is because we must check that any responses to be published abide by our Terms of Use.

An analysis report will usually be published some months after the consultation has closed. This report will summarise the findings based on all responses submitted. It will be published on the Scottish Government website and you may be notified about it if you choose to share your email address with us. You can also join our consulation mailing list where we regularly list newly published analysis reports (as well as new consultations).

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