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expert palliative care for the dying
Education Courses: Clinical Education
Gold Standards Framework in Care Homes (GSFCH)
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The GSFCH Programme, supported by the Department of Health End of Life Care Strategy, is one of the biggest, most comprehensive programmes ever undertaken to enhance end of life care in care homes. The programme is a structured yet flexible...
Palliative Care Pharmacists Network annual conference
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To make this annual event as accessible as possible to colleagues all over the UK it is held in rotation between London and other venues.
Topics will include two clinical updates and there will, as always, be an opportunity for delegates to...
Quality End of Life Care for All (QELCA)
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This is an innovative new programme designed to enable and empower teams of clinical nurse managers (Band 6/7) from acute or community settings to deliver high quality care to patients and families at the end of life. It comprises a five day...
End of life care and the GP
Course Date(s):Thu, 12 Jan, 2012
This half-day course is organised by a collaborative team of local GPs and specialist palliative medicine consultants. It is aimed at experienced GPs who wish to refresh and update their knowledge of end of life care.
Topics will include:...
SKIPP and VOICES-SCH: One year on - Measuring impact, reporting outcomes
Course Date(s):Fri, 20 Jan, 2012
SKIPP (St Christopher’s Index of Patient Priorities) is a new validated outcome measure for use in hospice and palliative care.
VOICES is a self-completion questionnaire for bereaved carers that has been used in England since the mid 1990s....
Think Tank
Course Date(s):Thu, 9 Feb, 2012
A forum for palliative care physicians in the London and south-eastern regions to explore problems in clinical management. There will be discussions of case histories and audits, with the participation of invited experts from outside the...
Leading an empowered organisation
Course Date(s):Mon, 13 Feb, 2012 - Wed, 15 Feb, 2012
‘Leading an empowered organisation’ is a national three-day leadership programme accredited by Leeds University. The course has been expanded and updated; is learner-centred and builds on participants’ experiences and challenges of being a leader...
Medicine management: an update for non-medical prescribers
Course Date(s):Tue, 21 Feb, 2012
This half-day is planned as an update for non-medical prescribers and will include the following topics:
update on the legal aspects of non- medical prescribing
accountability
prescribing of off-label and unlicensed medicines...
Achieving good end of life care for people with dementia
Course Date(s):Mon, 26 Mar, 2012
or Wed, 10 Oct, 2012
Estimates suggest that by the end of the decade there could be up to a million people living with dementia in the UK. All of us, especially health and social care professionals, need to understand the impact of dementia on the lives of individuals...
The sharp end of pain control
Course Date(s):Tue, 27 Mar, 2012 - Wed, 28 Mar, 2012
This two-day course will offer participants an up-to-date insight into the role of specialist pain management in the palliative care population, including those cared for in a hospital, hospice or home environment. It will define the place of...
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