We’re committed to ensuring that health and social care professionals have the knowledge, competence, skills and resources they need to ensure the provision of compassionate, high quality end-of-life care. Here you will find some helpful resources and practical guides.
End of Life Care Guidance +
- Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care
- Priorities for Care of the Dying Person
- One Chance To Get It Right
- Coping With dying
- Rowcroft Hospice Good Care Guidelines
- Standards For Good End Of Life Care In The Hospital
- Guidance for completing Treatment Escalation Plan and Resuscitation Decisions (Version 12)
- Treatment Escalation Plan (TEP) FAQs (Version 12)
Symptom Control and Prescribing +
- Just in Case Bags (JICB) SOP - 2023
- Prescribing at the end of life for patients with reduced renal function (CKD 4&5)
- Rowcroft Hospice Diabetic Guidelines
- Torbay and South Devon palliative care prescribing for patients who are substance misusers.
- A guide to equivalent doses for opioid drugs.
- Top Tips for Prescribing Opioids at End of Life
- Instructions for use of Subcutaneous Syringe Pumps
- Managing the Last Few Hours or Days of Life
- Guidance for Admin of Levetiracetam via Continuous Subcutaneous Infusion in Community Setting
- End of Life Care in Parkinson’s Disease
- The Administration of Fluids by Subcutaneous Infusion in Community Setting to Adult Patients
Patient and Family Information Leaflets +
- Easy read future care plan
- Easy read future care plan guidance for support staff
- Fentanyl transdermal patch patient information leaflet - MHRA 2018
- Opioids in palliative care
- Coping With dying
- Medication and driving
- What to expect when someone important to you is dying
- Patients and carers resources booklet
- RH-Bereavement-leaflet-4pp-July-2025_web
- Bereavement resources
- Breathlessness
- Rowcroft Hospice Treatment Escalation Plan (TEP)
- What if I am unable to visit someone at the hospice?
- Spiritual care for patients and their loved ones
