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. • ...

Learning Objectives: • Identification of frailty and frailty syndromes. • Importance of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) • Deprescribing considerations—where to start and stop   Start & Finish Times: 13:30 - ...

A day focussing on supporting someone experiencing emotional and spiritual distress and managing someone in the last few days/hours of life and care after death. Start & Finish Times: 09:30 ...

A two-day course to support experienced community practitioners in conversation with patients facing serious illness. Course Aim: To prepare you to practice communicating with others at an advanced level and ...

Learning Objectives: • To understand the causes of breathlessness in palliative care (not acutely unwell patients) • To understand when oxygen may or may not be beneficial in palliative care. ...

Learning Objectives: • To explore the role that music and art can have with patients and families at the end of life. • To raise awareness of how creativity can ...

Increase your awareness about the national priorities for care for end of life and help embed them to your memory, applying them to your practice enabling a good or better ...

To understand what is meant by digital legacy and how to manage these assets after death. To enable participants to understand how to pass on digital assets in a Will ...

Designed for registered healthcare professionals only. To recognise the causes of liver disease and understand the stages of liver disease. To recognise symptoms and manage them. Prescribing in liver disease.

Designed for registered healthcare professionals, especially those using JIC meds. To improve working knowledge of the specific medications used in Just in Case Bags. To increase confidence in assessing the ...

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

To explore meaning and definition of spiritual care. To develop ways to improve assessment and communication about someone's spiritual needs at end of life. To offer resources to support your ...

To understand the principles of clear and sensitive communication. To name key effective communication skills and using a communication model to apply them to your practice. To improve your confidence ...

To understand what choices are available to a person planning their future wishes. To practice how to have an advance care planning conversation. To understand digital legacy and digital wills. ...

To describe how to involve a patient who is approaching death. To help you identify who to involve when caring for a person who is dying. To recognise opportunity and ...

To consider different perspectives on bereavement and grief. To increase your understanding of the subject. To improve your confidence when interacting with people who are bereaved (at work or in ...

To consider how to assess the needs of those important to the dying person. To understand how communicating affectively can assist and address concerns and needs. To feel confident in ...

Learn how to confidently describe the elements of an end of life care plan, including symptom management and psychological, social and spiritual support as we care for a dying person.