EHE Environments for Care at End of Life programme
On 29 November 2007, Ivan Lewis, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health, announced that £1 million was to be made available to extend the King’s Fund’s Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) programme to a further 20 NHS organisations in England with the aim of physically improving the environment for those that are dying and their relatives (see press release).
The EHE programme began in London in 2000 and has been designed to encourage and enable nurse-led teams to improve the environment in which they deliver care. The EHE programme not only transforms environments, it enables clinical staff to review care delivery in partnership with service users and also provides a unique personal development opportunity for those taking part.
The programme consists of two main elements:
- a development programme for a multidisciplinary team, and
- a capital project allocation of £30,000 for the team to undertake a project to improve the patient environment.
Applications for the 20 available places were available for any NHS organisation in England providing end-of-life care to adults. Applications have now been collated by the Department of Health from NHS trusts to join this new Environments for Care at End of Life programme. Successful applicants will be advised in the week commencing 10 March 2008.
Please note that applications are now closed.
