Qualification: Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care Optional Units
Unit: Unit 385 Understand how to provide support when
working in end of life care
Learning outcome: 1 Understand current approaches to end of life care
Assessment criteria: 1.1 Analyse the impact of national and local drivers on current approaches to end of life care
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- Some examples of national and local drivers on current approaches to end-of-life care include:
- End of Life Care Strategy (DoH, 2008) – promoted high-quality care for all adults across the UK approaching their end of life, provided a framework for end-of-life service providers (six steps of the EOL care pathway), individuals should be able to die in a place of their choosing
- Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care : A national framework for local action 2021-2026 (National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership, 2021) – six ambitions for how end-of-life care and palliative care should be, which provides a framework for organisations
- One chance to get it right (LACDP, 2014) – an approach to caring for individuals at the end of their life, five priorities for care that ensure the individual is the focus
- Health & Social Care Act 2008 – established Care Quality Commission (CQC) as the regulator of health and care providers
- Check with your local authority to find out how end-of-life care is provided in your own geographical area – this could include aspects such as policies, training, systems, information sharing protocols, how information is stored etc.
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