Please read the latest coronavirus advice before visiting any of the hospice sites.
HELP Care Home Partners are provided with support to set up and implement ECHO, a community of learning linking several care homes in each borough.
If you have any queries please email education@stchristophers.org.uk
Bromley Nursing, Extra Care Housing & Residential Homes
Wednesday 14 July 2021
Advance Care Planning
Deborah Holman, Associate Nurse Lecturer, St Christopher’s Care
Lambeth, Lewisham & Southwark Nursing Homes
Tuesday 20 July 2021
Rehabilitative Palliative Care: Putting People at the Centre
Gail Preston, Physiotherapist, St Christopher’s
Bromley Learning Disability & Mental Health Homes
Wednesday 21 July 2021
Topic & Speaker TBC
Lambeth, Lewisham & Southwark Residential Homes
Thursday 22 July 2021
Caring for People with Dementia in the Last Days of Life
Helen Scott, Associate Nurse Lecturer, St Christopher’s CARE
Using a hub-and-spoke model, care home staff are facilitated to present real cases for discussion and learning.
The ECHO team works closely with clinical nurse specialists and other members of the wider multidisciplinary team. The curricula for educational sessions are decided by care homes.
This event is for care homes in South East London and Croydon.
If you want to find out more about our additional Care Homes offering please see our Help for Care Homes information.
Speaker:
Maaike graduated from the KATHO (Roeselare, Belgium) in 2002 as a general and mental health nurse. She started her professional career working on mental health A&E units in Belgium and then moved to Aruba (Caribbean) where she worked on a mental health A&E unit and the local prison. After working there for 3 years she moved back to Belgium and continued working in A&E and Nursing Homes.
Maaike moved to the UK in 2006 and has since worked in Nursing Homes and Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice where she developed a palliative care service for care homes and then also developed and established an education department. Maaike has experience of working in palliative care, mental health, dementia, prison, care homes and education and has completed various post graduate education including a PGCert in Higher Education and a MA in Education.
Maaike has previously been seconded to the University of Greenwich as a senior lecturer and now works for St Christopher’s Hospice as Senior Educationalist where she alongside her senior leadership role leads on curriculum development and delivery.
If you have any questions about this or any of our other courses, please contact the Education team who will be happy to help
At St Christopher's, a registered charity, it is important for us to maximise any surpluses to reinvest in the objectives of the charity.
Unfortunately, the manner in which we undertake our training currently means we are not able to invest as much of our surplus as possible, therefore from the 1 December 2017, St Christopher’s Education Centre will charge VAT at the standard rate on our training courses, the reason for this change in pricing is twofold:
i) We want to be able to reinvest any surpluses made from training back into all of our charitable objectives rather than only Education
ii) We want to be able to reclaim the VAT on costs relating to developing and running the training courses