Anticipatory care planning involves looking to the future and making decisions about how you and your family would like your treatment to change as your illness develops. Alongside those close to you, we encourage you to consider what is most important to you so that you maintain control over the care you receive. Anticipatory care planning involves learning about your condition and how it might progress, what services are available to you at different stages of illness and how to access them, wishes for end of life care, including preferred place of care and  the degrees of interventions, treatments. At the practice we can keep a record of these conversations such that we know and can tell others of the decisions you make. These conversations are not final and we can update your preferences whenever you need us to. We want you to be at the centre of any decisions made about your care: anticipatory care planning allows us to refer back to your wishes at every stage of your illness.

NHS Inform Page

Scottish Government Page

St Columba’s Hospice provides a counselling service for children and loved ones before and after death. Their website also contains lots of useful information on how to approach conversations about bereavement, as well as creative projects they have in the community around the subject. 

St Columbus Family Supprt Page

You can also talk to one of our GPs if you feel you are struggling.

How we can help with common symptoms such as pain, constipation, loss of appetite and feeling or being sick. Find out more here.