Local and National Events

The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) has been developed to transfer the hospice model of care into the acute hospital setting for dying patients, and a roll out programme across LTHT is now in its fourth year.

An e-learning package has been devised for all staff within the Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust. We recommend that all staff working within areas using the LCP complete this short E learning package - it can be used as a refresher for staff who are familiar with it and have attended face to face training.

Go to e-learning Leeds and log in.

Dove House Hospice is based in Hull and offers a wide range of training for anybody with an interest in Palliative Care.

Please see the Dove House Hospice website for full details.

Yorkshire Cancer Network (YCN) are providing 3-day training programmes for senior cancer clinicians. 

Further details can be found on the YCN website.

Macmillan Cancer Support offer a range of training for Healthcare Professionals and members of the public.

Please go to the Macmillian Learn Zone to view the courses/workshops available.

Sir Michael Sobell House Hospice run a diverse range of courses throughout the year

Further details can be found on the Sir Michael Sobell House Hospice website.

CancerNursing.org have a programme of online courses and lectures running throughout the year.

Courses include:

• Introduction to Palliative Care Nursing
• Wound Management in Cancer and Palliative Care 
• Graseby Syringe Drivers in Palliative Care

Online lectures available include:

• Using Cognitive Behavioural Approaches in Palliative Care
• Nutrition
• Confusional States in Palliative Care Patients
• Using Humour in Cancer and Palliative Care
• Mental Health Issues in Palliative Care

They also have a series of online nursing videos available including:

• Flushing a Hickman Line
• Applying a Tegaderm 1633 Peripheral IV Dressing
• Bolus Injection 

There are many subjects covered by their discussion forums for Health Care Professionals too.

You need to register to access the currently available courses.  Registration is free and only takes a few minutes.

An online learning package with an interactive case study has been developed by BMJ Learning and the Parkinson's Disease Society.

This new interactive case history will show you what to do - as well as giving a comprehensive overview of non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease.

You need to register to complete the module or you can log in using an Athens password.

The BMJ Learning site has many other online modules which may be of interest to professionals.

The conference will feature a series of practical workshops, which will focus on the following elements of the end-of-life care pathway:

• Identifying people who are approaching the end-of-life care
• Assessment and care planning
• Co-ordination of care
• Delivering high quality services
• Last days of life
• Care after death

Keynote Speaker: Professor Mike Richards CBE. National Clinical Director for Cancer, Depatrment of Health.

Full details are available from the King's Fund website

YCN & University of Bradford, School of Health Studies

Postgraduate Certificate Development Programme 2010

April to November 2010

The Postgraduate Certificate Development Programme 2010 is aimed at Doctors, Senior Nurses, Managers and Allied Health Professionals working at a senior level.

The programme has been developed to support service redesign in cancer services and will help participants review their roles within the YCN and to contribute directly in helping shape the development of better clinical, patient and management systems, with the aim of enhancing better patient pathways.

The programme consists of 6 modules over 9 separate full days. Module dates are listed in the event flyer below and you must be committed to attend all dates. The course will be held at the Ramada Parkway, Otley Road, Leeds, LS16 8AG.

Please note there is a maximum of 20 places available on the programme. As places are limited and this has been circulated widely across all our Network Groups, you are encouraged to apply promptly, places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Successful applicants securing a place will receive written confirmation of their place within 5 working days.

Leading Service Improvement Flyer

Leading Service Improvement Application Form

 CECo Research Methods Workshop

Introduction to Research in Hospice and Palliative Care

Wednesday, 14thApril 2010

St Ann’s Hospice, Little Hulton, Worsley, Manchester M28 0FE

This one day workshop is organised by the National Cancer Research Institute’s Cancer Experience Collaborative (CECo). It is aimed at hospice staff and managers as well as health care professionals in other sectors, educators, academics, students and anyone who is new to or just beginning in palliative care research but is keen to learn more and develop their research knowledge and skills.The main aims of the day are to:

• Develop an understanding of research and its relevance to hospice and palliative care
• Identify researchable questions
• Explore ethical issues in the conduct of research in hospice and palliative care
• Explore different research methods which can be used in hospice and palliative care research

For more information please refer to the Programme and Booking Form

If you wish to attend the workshop, please complete Booking Form and return it to Anne-Marie McDonnell by e-mail (A.McDonnell@soton.ac.uk). For more information please call 023 8059 7881

Implementing the recommendations of the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcomes and Death 

Chaired by Marisa Mason Chief Executive National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcomes and Death (NCEPOD), this one day conference focuses on the principal findings from Caring to the End.  Following a keynote address from Heather Freeth Clinical Researcher National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcomes and Death (NCEPOD), you will hear about developments since the report’s release, using the NCEPOD checklist and evaluating death rates following admission.

For further information and how to book your place please visit the Healthcare Events website or download the brochure (pdf)

University of Liverpool - Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group (APSCSG)

Emotional Health in People with Cancer

21st April 2010, LACE Conference Centre, Liverpool

This conference will be of interest to healthcare professionals from all disciplines, hospice & palliative care staff, health researchers, postgraduate students, commissioners and service users.

Six CME points have been applied for this meeting.

Keynote speakers: Rev Mark Cobb (University of Liverpool and Sheffield Hospitals), Prof Mari Lloyd-Williams (University of Liverpool), Prof Sheila Payne (University of Lancaster)

Delegate Rate - £35

Call for Abstracts

We are keen to promote research being carried out in palliative care by giving hospice staff and researchers the opportunity to present their work in poster form at the above conference.  We are particularly interested in work focussing on emotional wellbeing or spirituality but all abstracts are welcomed.

Please submit an abstract of maximum 300 words to describe your work (excl references) by 24th March 2010 to mlw@liv.ac.uk

Further information and a registration form can found at: http://www.ceco.org.uk/resourcedocs/APSCSG_210410.pdf

Mapping grief: working therapeutically with bereaved people

22 April 2010

Sobell House, Sobell Study Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LJ

Target audience

This day will be of interest to counsellors, Clinical Nurse Specialists, psychologists, chaplains, GPs, volunteers and others involved in providing ongoing bereavement support or counselling.

About this course

Dr Linda Machin author of 'Working with Loss and Grief: a New Model for Practitioners (2009)' will be presenting this study day.

Linda’s work is particularly important as it helps practitioners to tailor intervention to need without being prescriptive. This interactive day will provide an opportunity for participants to consider the usefulness of the model and tool for practice.

For more information please see the event flyer (pdf).

Beyond breathlessness: end of life care in advanced respiratory disease

29th April 2010

St. Anne’s College, Woodstock Road, Oxford

Target audience

This study day will be of interest to all respiratory and palliative care specialists wishing to improve the quality of care for patients with advanced respiratory disease, and their families.

Topics will include:

• Identifying the barriers to the provision of high quality end of life care
• Patient and carer perspectives
• Effective communication in the context of an uncertain prognosis
• Management of uncontrolled symptoms including breathlessness, fatigue and anxiety
• Service development in practice – delivery of integrated care

For more information please see the event flyer (pdf).

Cancer and Sexuality whose job is it anyway?

Wednesday 19th May 2010  -  12 noon to 5pm

The Pavilions of Harrogate

A workshop about knowledge, knowing your own boundaries, constructing a pathway for your own 'comfort' and patients wellbeing.

If you are interested in attending please complete the registration form below and return to Emma Jehan at emma.jehan@ycn.nhs.uk .

For further information please see the Flyer & Programme below or contact Sue Ronaldson sue.ronaldson@hdft.nhs.uk .

Registration Form

Flyer & Programme

Advanced courses in pain & symptom management

23-24 June Newcastle Civic Centre

29-30 June University of Nottingham

5-6 July University of Oxford

12-13 July University of Oxford

Target audience

Doctors working in palliative care; also of value to specialist nurses and pharmacists. Experience in palliative care is a prerequisite for this course.

This course aims to provide participants with:

• An evidence-based update on challenging pain and symptom management topics
• Information about novel and emerging approaches to symptom control
• Stimulation and time for refl ection to develop ideas and thoughts for selfdirected learning over the next year
• A means of benchmarking against other colleagues
• The opportunity for networking
• A distillation of information which can be disseminated ‘back at the ranch’
• A synopsis of the top 10 journal publications in the past year. 

For more information please see the event flyer (pdf).