Les Storey

Preferred Priorities for Care (PPC): meeting integrated care needs at the end of life.
Thursday 30 October, 3.30pm

The PPC plan was initially developed to identify services being accessed by palliative care patients with cancer. The PPC process is now being for a wide range of care groups in order to identify care preferences, changes that occur in care planning and the reasons why the changes occurred. The PPC is an Advance Care Plan and is a patient held document that will follow the patient through their palliative care/end of life journey; the PPC process provides patients with opportunities to make informed choices and to discuss their needs with practitioners across health and social care services.

Originally introduced in response to the NHS Cancer Plan (DoH 2000) and the national initiative to increase the quality of care patient’s receive in the home setting PPC is now being used in all care settings for a wide range of conditions.

The emerging strategy for End of Life Care in the UK supports the view that it is important that patients have autonomy and choice in the care they receive and where they receive it. Therefore we are undertaking this work to improve the end of life care for all people with life limiting and life threatening conditions in all care settings.

This presentation will provide an overview of end of life care developments in the UK and give explicit examples of how Advance Care Planning using PPC has benefits for patients and families.

Background bio;
Les is principal lecturer at the Faculty of Health, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom, and is also national lead for the Preferred Place of Care programme that is part of the Department of Health’s End of Life Care Initiative.

Les qualified in 1970 and spent more than 14 years in operating theatres before moving into education and research. Since 1989 he has been involved in the development and implementation of competency-based approaches within nursing and healthcare both nationally and internationally.

Les has also helped to manage a number of research and development projects, has published widely and has presented papers at a number of national and international conferences.

Les also devotes time to the Royal College of Nursing where he is a council member and chair of the North West Board. He is a member of the national council for the Palliative Care Policy Group as well.

In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the health sector, he was conferred as a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 2000 for his work on competency-based education, and he was awarded the Edith Cavell scholarship by the Florence Nightingale Foundation in 2001.