# 1 How to ensure your plans are heard with Clair Fisher

In this introductory episode I talk to Clair Fisher. Clair talks about how her Advance Care Plan is helping her prioritise quality of life, the challenges she had in a recent hospital admission in ensuring her wishes were heard and the wellbeing advantages of planning ahead. Clair shares the strategies and tools she uses to document her wishes and what matters most to her.

Key messages from Clair

• Listen, patients do want to communicate something of themselves.

• Take that extra minute to show you have listened.

• This is important, I want to know you are making plans aligned to my wishes.

• Acknowledge and honour the work and effort that someone puts into making an Advance Care Plan.

• The form isn’t enough, it’s the process, ongoing conversations, connections that are more important to outcome. Do that in the open so everyone knows what is happening.

• It’s about the network of people around you being on the same page.

• Advance Care Planning is a well-being intervention.

Resource

• Find out more about Clair’s work Dying Well UK

• Find out more about My Future Care Handbook

• Find out more about What Matters Conversations

• What Matters to Me TEDx Jason Leitch

• Read Clair’s blog written after this podcast and on admission to Clair’s local Hospice A Perfect Welcome

• Find out more about living well while dying through Clair’s collaborative work with the What Works Centre for Wellbeing

• Support Clair’s call for better access to good quality palliative care through the Marie Curie Campaign

Find out more about my Bespoke Consultancy

• Service analysis for teams seeking to improve EoLC or prepare for CQC

• End of Life Care Education

• Lasting Power of Attorney Consultancy

• Talks and presentations

If you’d like to find out more about my work contact me.

What one thing will you do?

It would be great to share what resonated with you from this episode, what is the one thing you will do differently? Head to Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn to continue these important conversations.

Thanks to all my guests for working with me to share their knowledge, experience and stories about Advance Care Planning. I hope you enjoyed listening and have insights to take away; I love hearing your reflections on the series and look forward to reviews on Spotify where you can also subscribe to the series.

Clare

Important Conversations about Important Conversations.

Podcast edited by Martin Whiskin.