People who are living with life shortening conditions often miss out on well planned care and support because they are not identified and offered the right help soon enough.
SPICT™ is a simple tool designed to help healthcare and social care staff and other care workers recognise when someone might benefit from palliative care alongside their other treatments and care. People and their families also find it helpful to talk about ways of managing changes in a person’s life, health or care.
Staff working in healthcare, social care and care homes said we need a version of SPICT™ in ‘plain’ language.
SPICT-4ALL™ aims to make it easier for everyone to recognise and talk about signs that mean a person’s health may be changing.
You can use SPICT-4ALL™ to ask about more help and support so that the right care is available for you or a person you care for. You can find out more about future care planning too.
SPICT-4ALL™ 2025
View e-SPICT-4ALL™ 2025 on your device.
Download SPICT-4ALL™ 2025 (pdf)
The SPICT-4ALL™ record (pdf) has a marker for each indicator.
[SPICT-4ALL™ 2025 includes mental illness and more advice on palliative care reviews and future care planning]
Using SPICT-4ALL™ 2025
Using SPICT-4ALL™ 2025 – advice on how SPICT-4ALL™ helps you care for people and families.
View e-Using SPICT-4ALL™ 2025 on your device.
SPICT-4ALL™ translations are increasing around the world.
If you would like to translate SPICT-4ALL™ – please contact us.
e-SPICT-4ALL™ 2025
The SPICT™ programme is an international collaborative project based at The University of Edinburgh.
SPICT™ is free to download. SPICT™ must not be reproduced in any other format nor modified in any way without permission.
All users are responsible for ensuring that they use the current versions of SPICT™ and for any use they make of SPICT™ and SPICT resources.
SPICT Platinum Partners have contributed to new translations, or donated to support the SPICT™ international programme.
SPICT-4ALL in Prisons
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