Post by St Luke's Hospital - Singapore

Advancing the future of palliative care—together 👍 As SLH continues its journey to become a palliative-care-ready hospital, our multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, and allied health and pharmacy professionals attended the Singapore Palliative Care Conference (SPCC) to learn, share, and advance best practices in end-of-life care. We are proud to have two projects featured as conference abstracts, contributing to the growing body of palliative care knowledge: 🔹 The Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Model in End-of-Life Care for Persons with Intellectual Disability (PWID) — exploring more holistic palliative care for persons with intellectual disability through a team’s experience caring for a patient with Down syndrome. 🔹 Achieving a Good Death for the Dying in SLH — demonstrating how structured care pathways and interdisciplinary education improved end-of-life outcomes, guided by standards shaped through literature reviews, national palliative care benchmarks, and team discussions involving a caregiver. Our Medical Director, Dr Andrew Samson, also joined a panel discussion on “Palliative Care as Value Based Primary Care”, sharing how SLH’s palliative ecosystem enables timely, person-centred, and goal-concordant care. By integrating palliative principles earlier in primary care, patients benefit from better continuity and support aligned with their values and priorities throughout their illness. As healthcare needs evolve, SLH remains committed to advancing holistic palliative care that honours dignity and supports patients and families through every stage of the journey—from early identification and care planning to end-of-life support in the wards and at home. #PalliativeCare #CommunityHospital #CommunityCare #HealthcareLeadership #ServingLovingHealing