Abstract

The Department of Health's End of Life Care Strategy 2008, set out ways for improving people's experience of dying in England and Wales. Hospice and specialist palliative care services were seen as having particular expertise and the strategy envisaged that their model of care should influence care in other generalist settings including social care. Palliative care social workers were identified as having knowledge and skills which could be drawn on to develop the end of life knowledge and skills of their colleagues in non-specialist settings. However, drawing on the ideas of Brown and Walter, 2013, that suggest social work has a pivotal role in remodelling hospice and palliative care, this paper examines their argument. To develop our thinking we have drawn on our experiences of sharing our expertise, through a hospice based, social work led, education and workforce development project for social care staff working in non-specialist settings.

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