We’re delighted to announce we are finalists for the inaugural Palliative & End of Life Care Awards!
The finals, taking place on Friday 28 June recognise the initiatives in social care which improve how people live and die towards the end of their life, and shines a light on the complex role social care plays in this area.
Our Health team have been incredibly busy, as they are nominated for not one, not two, but three awards! Here’s the list of awards the team are up for:
1) The Diversity and Inclusion Award – which recognises initiatives to address the divide in access to care for marginalised people. The team have been nominated for their pioneering work in facilitating those conversations with people who draw on support, families and staff about palliative and end-of-life care. Building on the success of the highly-acclaimed ‘Dying to Talk Project’, the team have developed freely available resources to provide practical and emotional support to empower people to have choice and control over their end-of-life care planning.
2) The Bereavement Support Award – awarded to organisations who provide compassionate and effective support to palliative care professionals and people facing loss. Working in partnership with ARC England, Beth Britton, a Freelance Consultant, and co-produced with people MacIntyre supports, Health and Families manager Nicola Payne, co-designed and co-delivered a ground-breaking Loss and Bereavement training for ARC England. First delivered in March 2023 to social care staff, it has been constantly refined and updated to meet learners’ needs, and was commissioned by an NHS Trust in Summer 2023.
3) The Palliative Care at Home Provider Award – celebrating home-based social care for people living and dying at home, which recognises care that makes a real difference to the wellbeing and comfort of individuals in their end-of-life journey. Recently, the Health team worked closely, alongside our learning disability nurse, Astrid Ubas, with supporting a gentleman, living with terminal cancer, in his home to have ‘a good death’. The Health team created resources, and provided training sessions from our collaboration with the Victoria and Stuart Project, which also helped the staff supporting this gentleman facilitate a good death for him in his home. You can read more here.
Health and Families Manager, Nicky Payne, said in response to the nomination:
‘I am lost for words to know we’ve been nominated for three awards! No one likes talking about death and dying, and the commitment from the team is absolutely inspiring, and it means we can break down those barriers and encourage people to feel empowered when having those really difficult conversations. I am so incredibly proud of the team, and the amount of recognition we’ve received is overwhelmingly positive! It just encourages us to continue to deliver, and support people to make sense, and have control and the choice over what happens in their end-of-life planning and care.’
The team’s efforts don’t stop there.
They were invited to share their expertise in the roundtable discussion, earlier this year, which you can read about here, and have continued their work with the Victoria and Stuart Project. Last week, they were invited to the Victoria and Stuart conference, where the Toolkit was launched, which is an accessible end-of-life care resource, helping people take control and make choices about the end of their lives.
You can watch the full Sui-Ling Show special episode, live from the conference, as it comes out, next Friday 5 July on Youtube.
Congratulations, once again, to the MacIntyre Health Team, on reaching the finals, we’re all behind you and wishing you all the luck in the world on the night!
