Independent Prescribers – Community of Practice

An online community of practice to support Nurses and Allied Health Care Professionals who are independent prescribers working in palliative and end of life care.

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Event overview

  • 24 Nov, 2026
  • 6 live 1.5 hour sessions and opportunities for self-study
  • 2pm - 3.30pm
  • £189 plus VAT

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Independent Prescribers

The 2026/27 community is now available for booking.

Sessions take place bi-monthly online on Zoom and run from 2 – 3.30pm.

Resources and recordings will be made available to you on our Online Learning Platform, allowing you to sign up for the community at any time during the year.

What will the Community of Practice look like?

This annual membership programme provides an online community of practice supporting Nurses and Allied Health Care Professionals who are independent prescribers working in palliative and end of life care. The community provides members with a space for reflection, discussion and sharing of best practice.

This year we have chosen to continue with last year’s format of delivery ensuring we maximise opportunities for people to learn together as a community during live sessions. This community will meet 6 times per year (alternate months). In between the live sessions ongoing learning, reflection and critical thinking will also be facilitated through on demand resources, activities and forum discussions.

The sessions, covering a wide range of end of life prescribing issues, will include opportunities to learn from clinical experts whilst being supported to consider application of learning in practice through case study discussions, reflection and Q&A.

Members of the community can access the presentations on our Online Learning Platform (OLP). The OLP will also be home to documents, reference materials and the case studies discussed in the sessions.

What will I learn?

The next session is Tuesday 24th November, 2 – 3.30pm

Topic: Optimising the use of injectable end-of-life medications at home: evidence and next steps

Please note: Even if you have missed earlier sessions you can still join the community as you will have access to our Online Learning Platform where all recordings and resources can be found.

This year’s topics will cover:

  • Neuropathic pain
  • Steroids
  • Medicine reconciliation
  • Prescribing for insomnia
  • Optimising the use of injectable end-of-life medications at home: evidence and next steps
  • Managing distress/agitation in dementia patients at the end of life

Who is it for?

This community will be of interest to nurse and allied health professional independent prescribers working in palliative care.

Tuesday 21st April2-3.30pm
Tuesday 16th June2-3.30pm
Tuesday 21st July2-3.30pm
Tuesday 22nd September2-3.30pm
Tuesday 24th November2-3.30pm
Tuesday 19th January2-3.30pm

Fiona Hodson

Consultant Nurse Fiona trained at Guy’s and St Thomas’. She initially worked at St Christopher’s Hospice with Dame Cicely Saunders. She then specialised in cardiology for 26 years including setting up cardiac rehab services, running cardiac support groups and as a valvular research nurse. She then worked as a heart failure CNS both in hospital and running clinics in GP practices. In 2005 she was part of a joint research project between palliative care and cardiology, exploring the palliative care needs of heart failure patients. She then moved to work as a community palliative care CNS at Guys. In 2017…
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Why our education programme?

We have a well-established programme of high quality, cutting-edge, specialist palliative care education, designed for those working in the UK and internationally.

Why St Christopher’s?

Education is at the heart of St Christopher’s mission to promote and provide hospice care of the highest standards.

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