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The CSNAT team are collaborating with Hospice UK to establish a new Project ECHO network  which aims to bring together Hospices all over the UK to access education, advice and peer support to help with implementation of person-centred assessment and support for family … Continue reading →

We are delighted that the CSNAT, together with our online training, has been recommended in the newly released Daffodil Standards (Royal College of General Practitioners). For further information see: Standard 3 –  Carer Support – before and after death 

Implementing the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT) Approach: Views from research and practice Through popular request, we hosted our second fully booked ‘CSNAT’ conference on Friday 1st March 2019. This was an update our first conference we hosted in … Continue reading →

Launch of ‘The CSNAT Approach Training and Implementation Toolkit’ (Feb 2019) We are delighted to announce that The CSNAT Approach Training and Implementation Tookit has now launched! The new online training package can be accessed free of charge and allows … Continue reading →

We are pleased to announce that new training workshops are now available in the autumn for palliative care services planning to implement the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool in a UK setting. This carer-led approach to assessment and support is … Continue reading →

If you are a member of Hospice UK providing services for adult patients, you should have recently received a survey to complete – the Hospice UK Organisational Survey of Carer Assessment and Support.  You will be pleased to know that … Continue reading →

The CSNAT team were delighted to attend Marie Curie’s 2017 conference and would like to thank Pete Jones for providing us with our very first official team photograph. Left to right: Professor Gunn Grande (University of Manchester); Dr Janet Diffin … Continue reading →

Dr Janet Diffin recently presented findings from our national study looking at the implementation of the CSNAT intervention across 36 UK palliative/end-of-life care services. This study was entitled ‘The influence of orgnaisational context on staff attitudes to to the implementation … Continue reading →