Purpose of the group
- To act as a channel of communication between the Scottish Parliament and people organisations working in palliative care
- To provide opportunities for Members of the Scottish Parliament to learn about palliative care needs and service and the issues involved in palliative care provision
- To increase awareness and raise the profile of palliative care
- To put palliative care on to the agenda of the Health and Sport Committee.
Forthcoming meetings
Next meeting: 21 March 2012
This meeting will be held at 5.45pm in Committee Room 4.
Agendas/Links
Group Officers
Group Members
Non MSP Individuals
Bruce Cleminson
Peter Hastie
Grace Lindsay
Douglas McLennan
Mairi Sharratt
Organisations
ACCORD Hospice
Ardgowan house
Association Of Hospice and Palliative Care Chaplains
Audit Scotland
BMA
British Heart Foundation Scotland
British Heart Foundation
BSN Medical
Cairdeas International Palliative Care Trust
Cancer Link Aberdeen and North (CLAN)
Care for Scotland
Care not Killing
Children’s Hospice Association Scotland
CLIC Sargent
Community Pharmacy Scotland
Disability Project
Edinburgh Cancer Centre
Edinburgh University
GMC
Health Inequalities Alliance
Health Watch Scotland
Highland Hospice
Holyrood Magazine
Independent Association of Nurses in Palliative Care
Macmillan Cancer Trust
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Marie Curie Hospice Edinburgh
Marie Curie Hospice Glasgow
MND Scotland
Morhamburn
NHS Ayrshire and Arran
NHS Borders
NHS Dumfries and Galloway
NHS Fife
NHS Forth Valley
NHS Grampian
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
NHS Lanarkshire
NHS Lothain
NHS Tayside
Parkinson’s UK
Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice
RCN Scotland
Roy Castel Lung Foundation
Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance
Scottish Kidney Foundation
Scottish Parliament
Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care
SCSWIS
St Andrew’s Hospice
St Columba’s Hospice
St Margaret of Scotland Hospice
St Vincent’s Hospice
Strathcarron Hospice
Sue Ryder Care, Scotland
University of Edinburgh
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals