10 July 2014 Sally Boa - Goal setting in healthcare
Thu, Jul 10th 2014 at 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Sally Boa talked to the club about her recent PhD project in which she collaborated with Strathcarron Hospice to develop a system to put patient's wishes at the centre of the care they received.
President Peter Farr welcomed members to last Thursday's meeting at the Westlands Hotel and introduced our speaker for the evening - Sally Boa.
Sally is a Speech and Language Therapist who has worked for the NHS and third sector for over 25 years. She recently completed a PhD investigating goal setting in palliative care during which she collaborated with Strathcarron Hospice and researchers from the Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit (University of Stirling) and the University of Glasgow to develop and implement goal setting in Strathcarron Hospice.
Sally outlined the origins of palliative care in the 1960's when Dame Cicely Saunders founded St Christopher's Hospice which was the first hospice linking expert pain and symptom control, compassionate care, teaching and clinical research. Palliative care was defined by the World Health Organisation in 2004 as 'a simple system to help patients live as actively as possible until death'
Despite the rather sombre subject matter, Sally gave an interesting account of her work at Strathcarron Hospice where she developed a framework which allowed patients, in collaboration with the care team, to identify and implement things which the patient wanted to do. In many cases, these were simple but needed careful planning and assessment of risk to achieve a satisfactory solution. Sally's work was recognised in 2013 when she won the Scottish Health Innovation award.
David Mackie thanked Sally for a very thought provoking talk.
