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Welsh Advance Care Planning Mapping Exercise 2019

Introduction:

In 2018, Dr Mark Taubert as strategic lead for Advance & Future Care Planning in Wales was tasked with collating examples of advance and future care planning practice and projects from Welsh health boards, trusts, organisations and charities. The deputy Chief Medical Officer for Wales, Chris Jones, was seeking to highlight areas of good practice and to collect them all in one place, so that organisations can learn from each other’s practice and, where possible, seek to collaborate and step up those projects that have been successful. The examples below do not cover every project, and further submissions can be sent to us, simply get in touch. Furthermore, many of the projects have been initiated by patients and carers themselves, and we have included a British Medical Journal publication by a patient who has commented favourably on a Welsh ACP project.

We have used the terms Advance Care Planning (ACP) for situations where a patient has capacity and Future Care Planning (FCP) as a broader term to also include patients who lack capacity at a time when an anticipatory decision making process is suggested.

Dr Mark Taubert, Strategic Lead for Advance and Future Care Planning, Wales

Advance Care Plan ambitions for Wales in 2019’

Vaughan Gething AC, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services recently announced the national and regional focuses of healthcare and social care in 2019. To read the statement visit https://beta.gov.wales/written-statement-advance-care-planning

Dr Mark Taubert outlines Advance and Future Care Planning Strategy for 2019 to Dementia Study Day Forum in North Wales