Welcome to the virtual course! This course is recognised as one of the UK's leading courses for palliative care nurses, pharmacists, and doctors. In 2024, nearly 500 participants attended the Oxford Advanced Courses, with the majority joining virtually. For almost 50 years, the Oxford Advanced Pain and Symptom Management course has delivered cutting edge knowledge and skills to healthcare practitioners, helping them provide their patients with the best possible care.
Since 2008, Dr Mary Miller has led the course, developing a unique programme each year.
Feedback from 2024 delegates highlights the course's continued excellence: 'I continue to be very impressed by the high standards, excellent content and fantastic facilitation'.
The course delivers high standards of professional knowledge, is educationally sound allowing staff time for discussion and supports staff in setting continuing educational goals for the year following the course.
In 2025, we will offer face-to-face courses in Oxford and Newcastle, alongside our much-requested virtual format. The virtual course gives access to recorded lectures from both days, allowing you to engage with the course as your schedule allows.
Any surplus income generated is ploughed back into education - as we are a charity.
Location: Virtual
CPD Credits: 12 CPD credits - application in progress
+ Venue
This is a recorded online course.
+ Course Programmes
The 2025 programme is in development and will be available shortly. An example form 2024 is below...
Day 1
09:00 Benzodiazepines and the Z drugs - Dr Paul Howard
10:00 Fluids at the end of life: Current evidence - Dr Helen Willicombe
11:30 Family members witnessing diminishing drinking of relatives dying in hospital - Dr Annie Pettifer
13:30 Physicians’ attitudes and experiences of managing breathlessness in palliative, respiratory and end of life care - Dr Adejoke Oluyase
14:30 Nutrition - Dr Suzi Batchelor
16:00 Considering children when their important adult is dying - Dr Jeff Hanna
Day 2
09:10 End of Life Care in Hospitals: Quality Improvement - Dr Ollie Minton
10:10 Parkinson's disease and care at the end of life - Jonathan Hindmarsh
11:40 Opioids for breathlessness: the state of the evidence - Professor Miriam Johnson
13:40 Early Satiety - Dr Aidan O’Donoghue
14:40 From the journals - Dr Mary Miller
15:25 Learning from the Course - Dr Mary Miller
+ Course Aims
The course aims to provide participants with:
- Knowledge to inform and update your practice
- Knowledge that is delivered by expert speakers
- Knowledge that develops between the speakers and the audience during questions and discussions
- Resources that can be used over the following 12 months to develop and extend your learning
- Resources that will support you to bring learning back to your workplace
- Resources that will help you develop your portfolio of evidence for appraisal and revalidation
- A means of ensuring your practice is at the cutting edge
- Time for thinking, questions and reflection
