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To meet national and international demand for CSNAT training, we have developed an online implementation toolkit (designed to replace our face-to-face training sessions). Five palliative services have now completed the pilot version and provided us with valuable feedback on toolkit … Continue reading →

The CSNAT team were thrilled to be so well represented at EAPC 2017 – 15th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care.  In addition to our open interest group meeting, we also had a number of presentations. Please select the links … Continue reading →

We were thrilled to have two abstracts accepted for oral presentation at this year’s Hospice UK annual conference. Dr Janet Diffin presented qualitative findings from a national study looking at those factors which helped or hindered the implementation of The CSNAT … Continue reading →

The Department of Health is currently in the process of developing a new carer strategy to set out how best to support them and recently launched a call for evidence. Our submission on 29th July 2016 in response to this call is … Continue reading →

Prof Gunn Grande and Dr Gail Ewing are collaborators on a project to test the CSNAT intervention with palliative care providers in Denmark. The planned stepped wedge cluster trial will be conducted by the Research Unit, Department of Palliative Medicine, Bispebjerg … Continue reading →

The CSNAT has been listed as a recommended tool within Essential Component 5 of the ‘Palliative and End of Life Care: A blueprint for improvement’ resource in Australia:  “Care is based on the assessed needs of the patient, carers and … Continue reading →

Dr Janet Diffin presented a poster on behalf of the CSNAT team entitled ‘The influence of organisational context on staff attitudes to the implementation of the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT) intervention in end of life care’. To view the … Continue reading →

We hosted a one day conference on the 2nd March 2016 which was dedicated to the exploration of a person-centred approach to supporting family carers within palliative’ end-of-life care. For further details please click here.