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
17 November 2021: Medication review and stopping unnecessary medications
Speakers: Thomas Lee, Learning Disability & Autism Specialist Prescribing Advisor, NHS SE London CCGCarol MacNeil, Snr Dental Therapist & OHP Coordinator, Bromley Healthcare CIC, Nina Deved, Care Home Pharmacist, Bromley CCG
15 December 2021
Topic and speaker TBC
10 November 2021: Nutrition at the End of Life
Speaker: Lorna Pearce, Dietitian, St Christopher’s
1 December 2021: Sex & Intimacy for People Living in Care Homes
Speaker: Gemma Weldon, Manager, Park Avenue Care Home
24 November 2021: Holding Families when the situation changes
Speaker: Vincent Docherty, Principle Social Worker, St Christopher’s
16 December 2021 : Working with London Ambulance Service
Speaker: Dr Diane Laverty, Macmillan Nurse Consultant
2 November 2021: Non-pharmacological Management of Breathlessness
Speaker: Kate Norman, Physiotherapist St Christopher’s
7 December 2021: Working with London Ambulance Service
Speaker: Dr Diane Laverty, Macmillan Nurse Consultant, LAS
11 November 2021: Heart failure at end of life
Speaker: Rebecca Chapanga – End Stage Heart Failure CNS in Palliative Care
9 December 2021: PEACE Plans and DNACPR
Speaker: Dr Katyerina Ca’r, Consultant Physician Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Queen Elizabeth hospita
16 November 2021: The Prevention and Management of Falls
Speaker: Wendy McMahon
25 November 2021: SALT at the End of Life
Speaker: Anne McCoy
14 December 2021: Ethical Issues in the Last Days
Speaker: Andrew Goodhead
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