Please read the latest coronavirus advice before visiting any of the hospice sites.
This two day introduction to End of Life Care course is for you if you are a health or social care assistant or support worker supporting end of life care patients, in the community, acute hospitals, care homes, or in prisons.
The End of Life Care strategy (Department of Health, 2008) states that, wherever possible, people should be able to spend their last days in the place of their choosing. Most people say that they would prefer to get this support in their own home. For people who move on to live in a care home, that becomes their home.
On completion of the course attendees will:
Lead tutor: Maaike Vandeweghe – Programme Lead
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
