Palliative Care Matters for All: palliative care strategy 2025 to 2030

Connecting palliative care

This palliative care strategy is relevant to the delivery of many Scottish Government policies, national standards and frameworks as well as relevant legislation.

This includes but is not limited to:

• Adults with Incapacity Act consultation
• Ageing and frailty: standards for the care of older people
• Benefits Assessment for Special Rules in Scotland (BASRiS)
• Bereavement charter for children and adults in Scotland
• Cancer strategy and Cancer Action Plan for Scotland
• Cancer strategy for children and young people in Scotland
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation decisions: integrated adult policy 2016
• Carers support payment
• Dementia strategy Scotland and Dementia strategy delivery plan
• Excellence in care and Excellence in care measures
• Getting it Right for Everyone (GIRFE) and GIRFE Toolkit
• Heart disease action plan
• Health and social care: data strategy and Care in the digital age: delivery plan
• Health and social care: national workforce strategy
• • Health and Social Care Service Renewal Framework (2025 )
• Health and social care standards
• Human rights - childrens' rights
• Illnesses and long term conditions
• Learning/intellectual disability and autism: transformation plan
• My Health, My Care, My Home: framework for adults living in care homes
• National carers strategy
• National health and wellbeing outcomes
• Neurological care and support: framework for action
• Population Health Framework (2025)
• Realistic Medicine
• Rehabilitation and recovery: a person-centred approach
• Remote and rural healthcare enquiry
• Respiratory care action plan
• Scottish polypharmacy guidance: realistic prescribing
• SIGN Guideline: care of deteriorating patients
• Urgent and unscheduled care standards
• UK Commission on Bereavement
• Value based health and care: action plan