It has been designed by St Christopher’s Hospice, South London, to enable and empower teams of clinical nurse managers from acute or community settings to lead on the delivery of high quality care to patients and families at the end of life.
Structure
QELCA comprises a five day course delivered by the hospice at the hospice followed by six months of facilitated Action Learning.
Evaluation
The programme has been formally evaluated in partnership with the King's Fund.
The report :
- outlines the rationale for the design and delivery of the QELCA programme
- discusses the findings and implications of the formal evaluation.
You can get a copy of the full evaluation report by contacting Liz Bryan.
Training the trainers
Specialist palliative
care units are a valuable resource for empowering and enabling generalists to
improve patient care at end of life. Help the Hospices and the Department of
Health End of Life Programme plan to pilot the QELCA programme in partnership with hospice/hospital
partnerships around England. This offers an opportunity to
replicate locally the QELCA
programme, or an adapted version based on its
underpinning principles.
