GWH’s end of life care team recognised at regional awards

A team responsible for providing patients across Swindon and Wiltshire with unique, personalised and dignified care when they are nearing the end of their lives, has been commended at a regional award ceremony.
 
Great Western Hospitals Trust’s Palliative Care and End of Life Team were announced as one of three finalists in the Education and Training Team of the Year category at the Health Education England Star Awards in Taunton.
 
With all NHS organisations between Gloucestershire and Cornwall taking part, the Star Awards have been designed to celebrate and promote the very best in education and training across the area’s health and care sector. Nominees for these awards are chosen by healthcare professionals.
 
The team from the Great Western Hospital were nominated in recognition of the work they have done to implement a Personalised Care Plan, which allows dying patients and their relatives to plan how they would like to be cared for and supported for during their final days.
 
Karen Brown, an end of life care nurse at GWH, said: “Although we didn’t come home as winners on the night, the team and I were thrilled just to be thought of in such a high regard by our peers.”
 
First launched last summer, the plan was rolled out across all Trust wards and departments at the Great Western Hospital last summer.