This course is amongst the UK’s leading courses for palliative care nurses, pharmacists and doctors. Almost 350 people attended to date in 2024. For nearly 50 years it has delivered cutting edge knowledge and skills to healthcare practitioners so they can provide their patients with the best possible care. Dr Mary Miller has led the course since 2008, developing a unique course each year.
Organisations get value for money as 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.
Feedback in 2024: ‘I continue to be very impressed by the high standards, excellent content and fantastic facilitation’
Any profits generated are ploughed back into education - as we are a charity.
In 2025, we will run a face to face course in Oxford and Newcastle. Lectures will be recorded and made available to all delegates attending the face to face courses as part of their supporting educational resources.
The option to watch the recordings is available for people who are unable to attend the face to face courses - see virtual course on our website.
Location: TBC
CPD Credits: 12 CPD credits planned
+ Speakers
The programme is in development
+ Course Programmes
The 2025 programme is in development and will be available shortly. An example form 2024 is ...
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
