In February's Centrepoint: - New Opioid prescribing and management guidelines - Share your voice in our advance care planning campaign - Living with a life-limiting Illness Survey deadline extended - and loads of upcoming events to add to your calendar 🗓️

Are you living with a serious illness? Having a conversation with your health-care provider about your values, fears, and goals, and what you want for health care will help you get care that is aligned with your wishes. Find out more: #WorldCancerDay

Have you seen our updated palliative competency domains? Our palliative competency framework has been revised to align with the language of the Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Competency Framework while maintaining components specific to BC:

A study by @StatCan_eng on palliative care, entitled “Living with a Life-limiting Illness: Access to Care and Related Experiences” has an extended deadline, now March 31, 2025. Take the survey at:

Shifting landscapes in healthcare necessitate shifts in how we think about service delivery. Join us to discuss how moving from a traditional facility-based hospice model to a community services-based model meets community needs & increases service access.

The framework will continue to be foundational in developing our educational resources, professional development pathways and service delivery models. Our thanks to the Pall Ed Advisory Council for directing this work. Revised framework here: 🧵3/3

Join us to learn how the @redcrosscanada is addressing the devastating impacts of social isolation and loneliness through the Friendly Calls program, a national accessible social prescription, and how this supports your work within palliative care.

The first Centrepoint of 2025 is out - read about the updated Palliative Competency Framework, events and awareness days coming up this year and much more: #PalliativeCare #PalliativeEducation

Don't get confused by terminology when thinking about your advance care planning. Today, we look at the difference between life-support and life-prolonging treatments. Find more commonly used terms in advance care planning in our glossary:

This tool can be carried in your pocket or used as a poster and gives ideas for what HCAs can do to help people feel better: Always follow the person’s care plan and tell a nurse or other caregiver what you have seen, heard, and done to try and help.

In case you missed it, last year BCCPC and @fnha developed a consensus statement to guide nursing decision making for people receiving palliative care who need subcutaneous medications for symptom management at home. Read more about the project:

What is your New Year's resolution? Why not improve your palliative care knowledge using our GPS skills pathway? Just like the GPS in your car, this pathway allows you to plot your own course, and explore short, free, self-paced palliative education:

If you have a loved one living with #dementia, it can be challenging to understand the implications on healthcare decision-making. Here we have collated resources about the legal rights of people living with dementia in English, Punjabi and Chinese:

Wishing our partners, colleagues and friends a Happy New Year. We look forward to working together in 2025 to enhance access to high-quality palliative care and support in all care settings and throughout the patient and family journey with a serious illness.

Domain 1 of the palliative competencies covers a #PalliativeApproach to care, which works alongside other treatment plans and looks at the whole person to improve quality of life from an individual perspective. It's all covered in our (GPS) pathway:

From 2019-2023 we collaborated with over 60 researchers from more than 30 institutions across Canada and the USA and shared this knowledge in 48 publications. Read more about our Research and Evaluation work in our #BCCPC5YearReport:

Wishing Happy Holidays to our partners and collaborators, and everyone across #BritishColumbia. Our office will be closed from Monday, December 23rd, 2024, to Wednesday, January 1st, 2025. We look forward to connecting with even more of you in the New Year.