The Power of Nursing Through Storytelling
There is a kind of care that no textbook fully captures. It lives in quiet hospital rooms, in whispered confessions, in hands held through the longest nights.
The Centre for Awareness and Response to End of Life Care
at St Christopher’s
St Christopher’s CARE is a state-of-the-art community and learning centre. Through professional learning and community training, we can provide the knowledge and skills to support you to explore living with dying and bereavement.
Our three-story centre incorporates a number of flexible learning spaces, including a lecture theatre, library (with free resources), digital support area, skills lab, bright meeting rooms and a fabulous roof garden.
Our conferences
Join St Christopher’s, and a host of expert speakers, for our essential one and two day conferences where you can strengthen your palliative care knowledge, discover the latest research and learn new practical skills.
These learning events are delivered at our state-of-the-art education centre in Sydenham South East London, as well as online.
ShinyMind
St Christopher’s CARE has partnered with mental health and wellbeing app ShinyMind to create a new End of Life Masterclass.
Packed with scientifically backed, bite-size resources to support the wellbeing of hospice staff while also strengthening their ability to provide high-quality care.
Free events for those working in South East London from
St Christopher’s and Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice
Nurse Verification of Expected Adult Death
Designed to help all nurses feel more confident performing this task
Introduction to the Principles of Palliative Care
On demand module suitable for all health and social care professionals
Sensitive Conversations
On demand module suitable for all health and social care professionals
Holistic Palliative Care Assessment
Suitable for all health and social care professionals wanting to know more about holistic palliative care assessment
HELP is a partnership between St Christopher’s Hospice and the Community Hospice providing high quality training in end of life care for health and social care professionals
Looking for a career in Healthcare?
We offer a range of opportunities to make sure the healthcare heroes of tomorrow, have the chance to learn and thrive today.
Educational
courses
We offer a comprehensive programme of education and training courses covering a range of subjects related to palliative and end of life care.
Professional shadowing
If you’re a postgraduate student, or have recently qualified, we offer opportunities for short-term professional shadowing and observational visits.
Student placements*
If you’re an undergraduate student on a course where a clinical placement is required, speak to your tutor or the placement coordinator about applying to come to here.
Summer
School
This five-day course could be the springboard to your future career. Open to students aged 16-19 in July each year.
*Please note that unfortunately we are unable to offer student placements of any type to anyone aged 15 and under.
Learn with CARE
Learn with CARE is our pedagogical framework which guides and shapes all aspects of teaching and learning at St Christopher’s CARE. It is underpinned by secure and positive relationships that are built and nurtured over time.
We value ongoing dialogue and feedback, before, during and after the learning takes place.
We pride ourselves on delivering content that is current, up-to-date and looks to the future.
We challenge our learners to think differently about topics and invite them to challenge us, our assumptions and our thinking.
Our delivery draws on learners’ experiences as a strength to enrich the learning for everyone.
Latest news
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 opportunity to reflect on the Act’s principles and some of the realities of putting it into practice.
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
St Christopher’s CARE is in partnership with ehospice, who offer palliative care news, views and inspiration from around the world
