Resource for Health and Social Care Professionals The SPICT™ helps professionals identify people with general indicators of poor or deteriorating health and clinical signs of life-limiting conditions for assessment and care planning. What will happen to each person and when is often uncertain. SPICT™ looks at health status not a prognostic time frame. Identifying people with deteriorating health earlier improves care. This tool is also an appendix 1 for the Butterfly Advance Care Planning and Coordination Team (ACCT) Service Operating Procedure
Brief overview document Informing about a new service been developed in response to feedback from people, including patients, their families and carers and health professionals. It aims to give time and space for the difficult and compassionate conversations that are needed when discussing future wishes and choices about their end of life care. . It will also put in place plans which are shared with their GP and other community teams to make sure that the palliative care provided meets their needs as closely as possible. On Monday 09 November 2020, this service will be initiated to support people who have deteriorating health and require supportive palliative care, being discharged from Pilgrim Hospital in Boston. The service will be delivered by the Butterfly Advance Care Planning & Coordination Team (ACCT), supported by the Butterfly Hospice. It will operate Monday to Friday, 1000-1800 hrs. See SOP for more details
