Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool

At Torbay Hospital, a quality improvement project in the Acute Medical Unit used the SPICT tool to prompt timely advance care planning. Baseline review found 0 percent of audited patients had ACP conversations, 0 percent received information, and 0 percent had ACP...

This tool helps staff recognise when someone’s health is changing and gives advice on how to give holistic palliative care relevant to the phases of their illness journey. It also includes key steps to support care of a person who is dying and their family or carers....

AI technology applied by the Korean team helped expedite the SPICT translation process and offered a useful baseline for human expert review. Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Gemini, generated the initial forward and back translations of SPICT. These...

Welcome to the new SPICT international @ St Andrews University website launched today. You'll find all the familiar content here and our URL is the same (www.spict.org). You can get all our SPICT 2025 versions and their Guides in our popular e-version that opens...