Education
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End of Life Care Conference 2011
Lewis-Manning Hospice's 5th annual conference - click here for full details
Conference 2007
“Putting the Pieces Together”
Palliative Care—The Future - 5 CPD points
Held on Saturday 12th May- Bournemouth University
This conference aimed to address the issues surrounding local end of life care and its future.
Chair:
Mr Robert Talbot MS FRCS
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Karol Sikora MA PhD FRCR FRCP FFPM
Dr Stephen Kirkham MA MB Bchir FRCP
Elizabeth Purcell, CEO Lewis-Manning Hospice
The conference was aimed at clinicians from all areas including the voluntary sector, nursing homes etc, managers, policy makers and those interested in palliative care.
The booking fee was £25
Key Objectives:
- Raise awareness locally about palliative care/end of life issues and the hospice movement
- Highlight the need for the statutory and voluntary sector to work together
- Explore the issues surrounding widening access to patients with other than cancer
- Examine some of the challenges to offering palliative care to patients in the long term (living with cancer as a chronic long term condition)
- Involve perspectives from all areas, statutory, voluntary, health, social, users and carers
- Provide an opportunity for discussion on how the information learnt can be transferred into realistic actions to initiate change.
