The NAHH Trustees are delighted to share the news that a recent article written by Kay Greene and Lesley Spencer, has been published in the European Journal of Palliative Care (EJPC). The article outlines the NAHH strategy and explains who the NAHH is and what our Association’s goals are.

The article can be downloaded here -> 

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A new role that will sit alongside existing nursing care support workers and fully-qualified registered nurses to deliver hands-on care moved a step closer today as Health Education England (HEE) published the response to its recent consultation on the Nursing Associate role.

The consultation attracted more than 1,000 responses from individuals including patients, members of the public and a wide range of organisations including professional bodies, trade unions, health care and social care providers and commissioners of healthcare. The role will be given the title Nursing Associate. In order to get the implementation of the Nursing Associate role right, HEE intends to appoint ‘test sites’. Five workshops will take place in England in July so that HEE can engage with stakeholders on the scope of practice of the new role. Early test sites will recruit 1,000 students to start training for the new role in 2017.

To view the response to the consultation, visit https://hee.nhs.uk/our-work/developing-our-workforce/nursing/new-support-role-nursing

Join Lisa Bayliss-Pratt, HEE’s Nursing Director, for a Twitter chat on the @WeNurses platform on Tuesday 7 June (8-9pm) to debate areas of the consultation and ask questions.

Barbara A. Jack, Tracy K. Mitchell, Louise C. Cope & Mary R. O’Brien have written this interesting article entitled:

“ Supporting older people with cancer and life-limiting conditions dying at home: a qualitative study of patient and family caregiver experiences of Hospice at Home care ”

Download the document below:

Jack et al 2016 – Journal of Advanced Nursing

The NAHH is delighted to have received some highly positive feedback from two member services about the benefits and impacts the Association provides for them.

Please do read these on the dedicated Testimonials page →.

The NAHH Trustees encourage and welcome feedback so please do get in touch if you wish to share anything with us.

“St Luke’s Hospice in Sheffield use some of the OACC outcome measures to inform our clinical services. We have over the last two years embedded these measures in to clinical working practices across the Hospice inpatient, community and day services. In this time we have seen the real difference this has made to patients and their families and we received a letter recently from a bereaved relative asking for a blank copy of their ipos so she could share it with friends and family and thanking us for allowing her and her husband to have the opportunity to complete this as it meant that she and he both knew that what was important to them mattered to us.

The use of the measures have also provided us with a more robust governance framework and reporting structures, improved MDT working with a framework enhancing equality of access to care based on need.

Whilst the time and commitment required to embed these outcome measures in practice is considerable and should not be underestimated the gains for patients and the organisation make this worthwhile.”

– Judith Park, Deputy Chief Executive from St Lukes Hospice in Sheffield

You can now donate to NAHH online via YouCaring. YouCaring is a free crowdfunding website for personal and charitable causes.

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Rosalind Matty, one of the founding members of the National Association for Hospice at Home, has produced this interesting history of how the association began.

Download the document below:

Rosalind Matty – The Birth of the National Forum for Hospice at Home

Sue Ryder – Leckhampton Court Hospice in Gloucestershire is delighted to announce its Hospice at Home Manager, Heather Mitchell, has joined the National Association for Hospice at Home (NAHH) as a Trustee.

Read the article on Sue Ryder here →

In partnership with Hospice UK, the NAHH is running their OACC Workshop on Monday 25 April 2016.

The day will be facilitated by Marie Cooper, Practice Development Lead for Hospice UK and Dr Fliss Murtagh, Reader and Consultant in Palliative Medicine at the Cicely Saunders Institute.

Barbara Jack et al publish article, “Supporting family carers providing end-of-life home care: a qualitative study on the impact of a hospice at home service”.

Barbara Jack et al’s study explores bereaved family carers’ perceptions and experiences of a Hospice a Home service.

To read this article, please download the PDF below:

Supporting family carers providing end-of-life home care: a qualitative study on the impact of a hospice at home services