Welcome to the SPICT International Community
SPICT™ is used to help identify people with deteriorating health due to life shortening conditions including frailty in older age. This means more people can benefit from a palliative care review and future care planning (advance care planning).
Palliative care helps people with life shortening conditions live as well as possible over years not just months. It is given along with the best available treatment of any underlying illnesses or health conditions. Palliative care means looking at what matters to the person, and it includes the people important to them.
General palliative care is provided by many health care staff, social care staff and care workers for people and their families wherever they live or have care – at home, in care homes, in outpatient clinics, and in hospitals. Palliative care specialists and specialist services offer additional expertise, advice, and education for other staff and teams, as well as caring for some people and their families.
The SPICT™ versions and guides are free to use for teaching and research. Please let us know if you publish a study.
e-SPICT™ 2025
The SPICT™ programme is an international community working collaboratively to promote and improve palliative care.
SPICT™ 2025
View e-SPICT™ 2025 on your device.
Download SPICT™ 2025 (pdf).
SPICT™ record 2025 (pdf) has a marker for each indicator.
Using SPICT™ 2025
Using SPICT™ 2025 – How SPICT™ helps you care for people and families.
View e-Using SPICT™ 2025 on your device.
Other versions of SPICT™
SPICT-4ALL™ – our plain language version (includes SPICT-4ALL in Prisons )
SPICT-LIS™ – our version for lower income settings
SPICT™ translations continue to expand.
If you would like to translate SPICT™ – please contact us.
Please note: SPICT™ has been developed and validated for adults not children.
SPICT™ is free to download and use. SPICT™ must not be reproduced in any other format nor modified in any way without permission.
The SPICT programme has no commercial links or sponsors.
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 and/or donated funding to support the SPICT international programme.
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