
Welcome to the virtual 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 two days, allowing you to engage with the course as your schedule allows.
The recordings will be available from July 31st 2025. They will be available to view until December 31st 2025. We will notify you when the recordings become available, and provide instructions on how to access them.
This course is recognised as one of the UK's leading courses for palliative care nurses, pharmacists, and doctors. Since 2008, Dr Mary Miller has led the course, developing a unique programme each year. 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. The course delivers high standards of professional knowledge, is educationally rich, allows time for discussion, and supports staff in setting continuing educational goals for the year following the course.
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'.
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.
+ Speakers
Confirmed speakers:
Dr Sarah Bishop Browne: Oral candidiasis
Dr Victoria Bradley: Metastatic bone pain.
Dr Ariel Dempsey: Hope and palliative care
Dr Victoria Hedges: Opioid induced neurotoxicity
Dr Paul Howard: Pharmacology and formulary plus
Dr Jessica Lee: Problematic opioid use
Dr Mary Miller: From the journals
Dr Kirsten Smith: Intense and prolonged grief
Awaiting response from other exciting speakers.
+ 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