Palliative Care Champions

  • Next session 11th June 2025
  • In-person
  • Patient care
  • £95 – For 2 members of staff* per Organisation to attend three training sessions. *This does not have to be the same attendee for each session.
Book onto course

For those working in nursing & residential care homes, we want to work closely alongside you to ensure that the very best care is available to everyone nearing the end of life.

We are providing three events of education and development that will build confidence and competence in Palliative and End of Life care.

Our Palliative Care Champions gather three times a year, with each session dedicated to a specific focus area. Topics are chosen dynamically throughout the year, often reflecting the group’s evolving needs and priorities.

Previous sessions have covered:

  • Nutrition
  • Nausea and vomiting

Up-coming sessions:

  • The last 48hours
  • Spirituality
  • Hand massage

The cost to join this program is £95 – which covers 2 members* of staff per organisation to attend all three sessions over a 12 month period.

*This does not have to be the same attendee for each session.

Course delivery

This session will be delivered by Helena King and Megan McGee, alongside other guest speakers. 

Helena King has been working at Dorothy House for over 20 years and has worked in both the In Patient and the Community settings.  Helena is currently a Clinical Lead for one of our Community Palliative Care Teams and is a wealth of knowledge in relation to Specialist Palliative Care Nursing. She has a real passion for creating a collaborative relationship between the hospice and local care homes across our community to help equip and empower their staff in the provision of quality palliative and end of life care.

Megan McGee is a registered nurse within Dorothy House Inpatient unit who has recently joined education as one of our Education & Professional development leads. Having worked across clinical, research and educational settings, Megan has had a well-rounded scope of practice that has helped to deepen her desire to de-stigmatize death through the provision of palliative and end of life care education, not only for the nursing workforce but also our general community. Her diverse background has taught her the immense importance of relationship and equality in humanity despite, and in respect of our differences which has inspired her longing to improve not only the lives but the deaths of others.

Who should attend?

This event is aimed at both registered and non-registered staff from:

  • Assisted living & Social Care communities
  • Residential & Nursing care homes