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Dame Cicely Saunders, From Essentials for a Hospice, 1976
This five day multi-disciplinary programme gives palliative care health and social care professionals from anywhere in the world, who are wishing to evaluate and develop their services, the opportunity to observe services provided by St Christopher’s. In addition, delegates will be encouraged to reflect on wider contemporary issues and the implications for developing palliative care practice within their own setting/culture.
This programme offers structured facilitation so that each person can leave here with a clear understanding of what is relevant to their own specific care setting and a plan for implementation of their learning into practice. The programme combines practice observation facilitated by senior hospice clinicians with classroom presentations, group discussions and individual action planning. It also offers the opportunity to participate in an ongoing online learning community.
The aim is for programme participants to leave empowered and equipped to address some of the challenges of delivering holistic palliative and end of life care in the setting and communities in which they work.
Please note that there are a limited number of places available for the Academy and early booking is advised.
To apply, please download, complete and email the application form to the Education Team. All applications must be completed in full and, once received, will be assessed by a multiprofessional panel.
There are a small number of bursary places available to applicants from resource limited countries. To apply please download, complete and email the bursary application form to the Education Team. All applications must be completed in full and, once received, will be assessed by a multi-professional panel. The closing date for bursary applications is 29 February 2020.
“Go around and see what is being done and then see how your own circumstances can produce another version; there is need for diversity in this field”
Dame Cicely Saunders from Essentials for a Hospice, 1976
By the end of this five day programme participants will have:
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
