Medic-Aide: Developing a Medic Specific Staff Support Service in Palliative Care

Objective: A pilot project and service evaluation to identify the benefits of offer medical staff psychological supervision to support them in a) managing patient distress and b) self –care. Methods: A fixed model of supervision was offered with pre and post outcome measure in the form of a questionnaire. Results: Overall the feedback across the service as a whole offered positive feedback in terms of the goals as above. Additional service developments and service extension considerations were also offered for future groups. Conclusion: Although the feedback was offered from a very small pilot group, the groups has shown benefit and continues to be offered and reviewed.