Designed for: Health & social care professionals working at all levels and volunteers. Learning Objectives: To review the benefits and challenges of providing compassionate health care. To recognise the causes ...

Designed for: Health & social care professionals working at all levels. Learning Objectives: To understand and feel able to apply the Universal Principles for ACP. To be confident in starting ...

Designed for: Health & social care professionals working at all levels. Learning Objectives: To understand the Treatment Escalation Plan (TEP) form and describe that it is not a legally binding ...

Rowcroft Hospice and Torbay & South Devon NHS Trust have been running the End of Life Care Ambassadors Programme since 2018 and have nearly completed four cohorts of staff from ...

  Designed for: Health & social care professionals working at all levels. Learning Objectives: To understand spirituality and why spiritual care matters in holistic, person centered end of life care. ...

Designed for: Registered health care professionals but open to those keen to learn more specifically about medical management of breathlessness. Learning Objectives: To understand the causes of breathlessness in palliative ...

  Designed for: Health & social care professionals working at all levels. Learning Objectives: To feel able to communicate sensitively on a range of matters related to end of life ...

  Designed for: Health & social care professionals working at all levels. Learning Objectives: To describe and briefly explore the five Priorities for the Care of the Dying (2014). To ...

Designed for: Health & social care professionals working at all levels. Learning Objectives: To improve knowledge and understanding about the anatomy and physiology of swallowing and illnesses affecting swallow function. ...

Learning Objectives: To consider why recognising dying is the key to a good death. To explore our knowledge and understanding about recognising dying in the months, weeks and days before ...

  Designed for: Health & social care professionals working at all levels. Learning Objectives: To understand the impact of different factors affecting a persons response to loss, death, grief and ...

Learning Objectives: To identify frailty and frailty syndromes. To raise awareness of the importance of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA). To understand de-prescribing considerations - where to start and stop. This ...

Designed for: Health & social care professionals working at all levels. Learning Objectives: To understand causes and contributing factors of pressure ulcers. To be able to apply preventative measures promoting ...

Learning Objectives: To improve working knowledge of the specific medications used in Just in Case Bags. To increase confidence in assessing the appropriateness of stat dose administration. To improve awareness ...

Learning Objectives: To recognise and apply the principles of pain management to patients receiving palliative care. To understand the role, rationale of meds and possible side effects. To consider non-pharmacological ...

Learning Objectives: To gain an understanding of how to assess the patient's experience of pain in palliative care. To gain knowledge of different tools for assessing pain. This workshop links ...

This one day, intermediate level practice-based day for health care professionals wishing to enhance their existing skills in emotive type conversations with those receiving palliative and end of life care.