Video hospice consultation in COVID-19: professional and patient evaluations.

Background: Providing care for our patients during the COVID-19 pandemic required a rapid shift to video consultations (VCs). A service evaluation was performed to capture hospice professionals' (HPs) and patients' experiences of VC.

Methods: Online or postal surveys were sent to HPs and patients, who had participated in VC between March and July 2020, focusing on their experience and satisfaction with the service.

A multi-professional educational intervention to improve and sustain respondents' confidence to deliver palliative care: A mixed-methods study.

Background: Education has been highlighted as fundamental in equipping healthcare professionals with essential knowledge and skills to provide good end-of-life care. Multiprofessional educational programmes have a positive influence on knowledge, attitude and confidence but few have sought to understand the longer term impact on care delivery. The European Certificate in Essential Palliative Care is an 8-week home-study-based programme for healthcare professionals and is currently run in nine centres.

Impact of the Powys Macmillan GP clinical facilitator project: views of health-care professionals.

The UK charity, Macmillan Cancer Relief, commissioned a 3-year pilot project employing 12 GP clinical facilitators (GPCFs). The aim was to raise the standard of generalist palliative care, provide extended clinical palliative care and provide a coordinated framework for commissioning specialist palliative and cancer care in Powys, rural Wales. As part of the comprehensive evaluation, surveys of GPCFs, GPs, district nurses and community hospital nurses were undertaken in order to record changes in palliative care activity, specialist palliative care services and training needs.