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Mental Capacity in Palliative Care Conference
The Mental Capacity in Palliative Care Conference took place at St Christopher’s CARE on 9 March 2026, giving delegates an…
My awareness and response to End of Life
Pippa shares how CARE has been helpful to her to write about her response to her Mum’s end of life
Empowering Nurses, Improving Care: The Impact of HELP’s Development Programme
When one of the participants shares that the education course or programme they’ve just completed has changed their life, it’s…
Global Palliative Doctors Network
When palliative care physician Ros Taylor reflected on the Global Palliative Doctors Network (GPDN) WhatsApp group, her words captured its…
30 Years of Progress: Inside the MND Conference Shaping Care and Research
St Christopher’s and King’s College Hospital provided delegates with a packed programme of expert speakers to cover some of the…
Learning disabilities conference paves way for progress
One hospice employs a full-time Clinical Nurse Specialist (learning disabilities), some research now exists into the experience of people with…
From Conversation to Connection: How St Christopher’s Is Listening to South East London’s Communities
Partnering with groups like the Pineapple Club, the hospice’s Community Action team is opening up honest conversations about culture, spirituality,…
Brazil: A country in which palliative care certainly has a future
Brazil’s palliative care movement is expanding through education, advocacy, and community partnerships. Its progress offers important lessons for sustaining equitable…
Why Don’t We Prepare for Death Like We Prepare for Birth?
Preparing for the birth of a child involves months of physical, emotional, and financial readiness. It’s celebrated despite its challenges…
Advancing Equity in Palliative Care: A New Model for Supporting People with Learning Disabilities
“Generally, research shows that there is a huge gap and that people with learning disabilities are not getting access to…
Ubuntu: A Global Portrait of Death, Care, and Connection
Photographer Andre Francois and collaborator Paula Poleto explore the shared humanity in dying across cultures — a visual journey of…
How St Christopher’s and King’s College Hospital are Transforming Pain Management in Palliative Care
The Sharp End of Pain conference made it clear: collaboration between pain and palliative care teams is not just beneficial—it’s…
CARE’s Global Palliative Nursing Network
Welcome I’m delighted to introduce you to the Global Palliative Nursing Network (GPNN), launched in 2023 through the Centre for…
Ten key points from of the Interdisciplinary Masterclass Programme
This, the first of an innovative two-day programme, led by Gail Preston, Senior Physiotherapist and Visiting Lecturer at St Christopher’s…
Nursing is the backbone of the palliative care workforce
The theme for International Nurses’ Day this year focuses on caring for nurses in order to maximise their contribution and…
ShinyMind
In a groundbreaking partnership, St Christopher’s CARE and the NHS-backed ShinyMind app have launched an inspiring End of Life Masterclass…
“What is to become of me?”
“One day when I went to visit her during her final months, she just came out with this question: ‘What…
How a Unique Hospice-Hospital Partnership is Transforming Patient Care
Breaking boundaries in pain relief – Our partnership with the pain intervention team at Kings transforms what we can offer…
From Global Learning to Local Impact: Advancing Pain-Free Palliative Care in Kenya
“While pain management is a cornerstone of palliative care, so communication and networking opportunities should be a foundation of nursing.”…
Palliative care pioneers share essential qualities for nurse leadership
Yangden Paki and Halima Ibrahim share many of the key qualities required to enable them as nurses to introduce, establish…
St Luke’s step up rehab offer with support from St Christopher’s CARE
How a community of practice inspired two physios at a Plymouth hospice to start a wellbeing morning.
Making masks and making friends
Sam Lucas, who attends our popular ‘Create and Chat’ group reflects on a recent collaboration with students from The BRIT…
Transforming Heart Failure Care
Many people with heart failure who seek help with future planning, or experience high symptom burden, or want help and…
Beacons of CARE shine bright
Representatives of the new beacons came together in London in October 2024, working together for a week to create delivery…
What is it like to be a palliative care social worker?
Social worker Beth Kwesiga discusses her varied, challenging and hugely rewarding role as a palliative care social worker.
Behind the mask
It can be hard to quantify precisely what a single art project can achieve. Sit down and talk to the…
Celebrating contributions to palliative care for International Women’s Day
Women make up the vast majority of the palliative care workforce globally, many of them in the most challenging environments…
The Power and Necessity of Nurse Consultants in Palliative Care
“We need a nurse consultant to start work here as soon as possible”. These were the words of my most…
Global Perspectives, Local Impact: Caroline’s Kerala Masterclass Experience
Kerala masterclass provides Paramedic Caroline with a world of inspiration With 15 years’ experience as a Paramedic with London Ambulance…
Bridging the gap: A new national education programme to support palliative care specialists
“I am really excited and can’t believe it’s actually happening.” It’s not often the launch of a new palliative care…
Preparing hospice workforces for a possible change in the law around assisted dying
I recall conversations as far back as the early 2000s when Lord Joffe introduced his Patient (Assisted Dying) Bill, followed…
Interdisciplinary Masterclass Programme: Blurring Boundaries
“You don’t need more staff, just a different way of thinking“ Gail Preston, Rehabilitation Physio and Visiting Lecturer for St…
MND Conference: Hope in Action – the A-E of MND
In fact, the day provided an A-E of actions to focus on. Delegates at St Christopher’s and King’s College Hospital’s…
Empowering Dementia and Palliative Care
Nine Key Lessons from Experts at the St Christopher’s and Nightingale Hammerson Conference It was midway through the second day…
Why hospices and care homes need to work together
While whittling down to numbers how we best meet the health and care needs of the UK’s ageing population might…
St Christopher’s nurse awarded senior research leader programme place
As the home of the modern hospice movement, St Christopher’s has been a beacon for new research and insight into…
Create & Chat together
Jack Emsden, a Community Learning Facilitator at St Christopher’s, shares their experience supporting the exhibition and the value of the…
The Future of Ageing
And yet, hospices – the very places championed as the centres of excellence when it comes to providing quality palliative…
Nurses as Trailblazers and Pathfinders: Let’s Make it Happen
Chaired by Prof Heather Richardson and Prof Julia Downing, the aim of the event was to encourage nurses around the…
Creating a Different Tomorrow
Wednesday 24 July, witnessed the first meeting of a new cohort of learners, focused on becoming Pathfinder Leaders in Palliative…
Improving Palliative Care for People with Advancing Heart Failure
If the purpose of St Christopher’s Improving Palliative Care for People with Advanced Heart Failure conference was to inspire and…
Moving forward – a time for new leadership in hospice and palliative care
There is a sad and recurrent theme when I talk to anyone involved in developing or leading hospice and palliative…
Global Palliative Nursing Network – one year on!
A year after the launch of the Global Palliative Nursing Network, it’s safe to say it’s very definitely meeting a…
Designing and delivering training in palliative care, Karachi, Pakistan
I discovered that their staff had little or no prior palliative care training. Through video calls with one of their…
Collaborating with Communities
For everyone who attended the sold-out Collaborating with Communities conference, finishing up with the Be Happy Be Sad Party hosted…
QELCA® leaves the nest!
QELCA® (Quality End of Life Care for All), now a registered UK Trademark, has supported the development of teams and…
Redefining professional identity; a journey of self-reflection and reconciliation
As a nurse who started her professional career in the emergency room as a bedside nurse and is currently working…
Collaborating with Communities: Transforming End of Life Experiences Together
With St Christopher’s next conference, Collaborating with Communities: Transforming End of Life Experiences Together, fast approaching, our Head of Community…
Responding to Marie Cooper “Do you feel safe in our care?”
Peter Ellis- retired, chief executive, Richard House children’s hospice, East London I trained as a nurse in Sheffield qualifying in…
Kate Wilson’s Blog
As she starts the second of our two-year Advanced Clinical Practitioner and Nurse Consultant Development Programme, Kate Wilson shares the…
The Case for Contemplative Care: We are all in this together
Many moons ago, I was part of a team of Hospice Chaplains that was tasked with attending to the spiritual…
Specialist heart failure nurse proves success of integrated approach
Witnessing the sudden death of a close friend leaves a mark on everyone. When, as in Isobel Jackson’s case that…
Mother’s Day Reflection
Pippa Moss, Senior Education Support Officer at St Christopher’s CARE, reflects on Mother’s Day when her mother has advanced dementia…
Future Planning: Advance Care Planning Reconsidered
Our January conference saw participants keen to continue to engage in conversations about more effective ways of future planning. This…
What we mean by managing pain beyond medicine
Our long-standing Lead Chaplain of over 20 years at St Christopher’s Hospice shares why contemplative care is such an important…
The importance of caring for pain beyond medicine
In March, St Christopher’s is hosting a new conference: The Case for Contemplative Care. We asked Mandy Bruce, who leads…
Do you feel safe in our care?
Starting with my own experience Undergoing inpatient treatment some years ago, I wish somebody had given thought or even asked…
Introducing a model of holistic rehabilitative palliative care
1 July 2022 witnessed the unveiling of a revised model of rehabilitation in palliative care, prepared by St Christopher’s Hospice…
