Written question asked by Sharon Hodgson (Labour) on Thursday, 15 December 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 19 December 2016. It was answered by David Mowat (Conservative) on Tuesday, 20 December 2016 on behalf of the Department of Health.
Palliative Care: Children and Young People
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure there are sufficient professionals with the skills needed to implement the new NICE clinical guideline, End of Life Care for Infants, Children and Young People with Life-Limiting Conditions: Planning and Management across England.
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Through the Government’s 2016/17 Mandate to Health Education England (HEE) we have asked them to work with key partners to ensure that all staff delivering end of life care are appropriately trained.
HEE are currently developing a refreshed core competency framework to standardise end of life care training, and working with partners to strengthen the undergraduate and postgraduate curricula to support patient choice and improve quality of care. They are also working closely with NHS England and the Royal College of Midwives to agree a new competency framework for ensuring all midwifery staff have basic bereavement training and skilled midwifery bereavement staff are available to support parents following a loss.
All staff involved with dying people must be capable of having difficult conversations about death and dying, and take the time to listen carefully to what dying people and those important to them say. NHS England is working with two New Care Model sites of Airedale and Southend to test an innovative approach to ‘serious illness conversations’ in which clinicians are trained to support people with serious illnesses to discuss what is important to them, treating these discussions as a clinical intervention which delivers patient-centred care.
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- 57868
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- 2016-17
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- Children Health professions Palliative care Training Young people
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