Maintenance of the guidelines

Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines
Healthcare Improvement Scotland

A multi professional development group considers issues relating to currency and safety of the guidelines on a quarterly basis and has also led the selective update of the guideline collection.

Development group membership

Membership palliative care guideline group 

Steering group:

Anna Sutherland, NHS Forth Valley (Chair) Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Glasgow University, Strathcarron Hospice and Forth Valley Royal Hospital

Kelly Moffat, (Deputy Chair) Lead Nurse, Palliative Care, NHS Lothian

Paul Wilson (Pharmacy Lead), Specialist Palliative Care Pharmacist, NHS Fife, and Chair SPCPA

Steinunn Boyce, Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine NHS Fife

Rebecca Chaddock, Palliative Care Social Worker/Head of Supportive Care, St Columba’s Hospice, Edinburgh

Susan Cook, Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine NHS Lanarkshire

David Fearon, General Practitioner, Bethesda Hospice, Stornoway

David Gray, Palliative Care Consultant, NHS GGC/Accord Hospice

Bridget Johnston, Professor of Nursing & Palliative Care, University of Glasgow

Linda Johnstone, Macmillan Area Lead Pharmacist Palliative Care, NHS Lanarkshire

Gordon Linklater, Consultant in General Medicine, NHS Highland

Claire O’Neill, Lead Nurse, Palliative Care, NHS GGC

Rosemary Pengelly, Public Partner, Ayrshire

Martin Robertson, Public Partner, Aberdeenshire

Juliet Spiller, Consultant in Palliative Care, Marie Curie

Graham Whyte, Palliative Care Consultant, NHS GG&C/Marie Curie

Anne Wilson, Lead Clinical Pharmacist, NHS Fife

 

Programme team:

Aimie Littleallan, SIGN Project Officer

Edmund McKay, acting SIGN Programme Manager

Ailsa Stein, SIGN Programme Manager

 

The guideline updates published on an ongoing basis are made possible through the contribution of an extensive range of clinicians, practitioners, patient and family representatives, researchers, communications, web development and project support staff.  

Queries, feedback and comments regarding the guideline collection can be sent to the group via the Contact us page