Palliative Care Research in Residential and Community Settings

  • 4 October, 2024 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
  • In-person
  • Patient care
  • £65
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Come join us at the Hospice in Winsley for an exciting collaborative event focusing on palliative care research in residential and community settings. This in-person event will bring together experts in the field to discuss the latest findings and innovations. Don’t miss this opportunity to network with fellow professionals and learn from leading researchers. Register now to secure your spot in this palliative care research conference!

Note: we have launched an abstract call for posters and presentations. We particularly welcome early researcher abstracts. The deadline for submission is July 2nd. Please follow this link for the form: abstract call submission form

Find out more about Innovation and Research at Dorothy House here.

Draft Agenda

Full running order to be confirmed shortly…

9:30 – Welcome (Candy McCabe, Head of Education & Research at Dorothy House Hospice)

9;45 – Anticipatory Prescribing (Dr Ben Bowers QN, University of Cambridge)

10:20 – MND Patient Story (Dawn Beckett, MND Specialist Practitioner, Royal United Hospital, Bath)

10:30 – TBC (Dr Diana Teggi, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bath)

10:50 – Networking coffee break

11:20 – How can we improve personal care assistance of people living with advanced dementia? (Dr Tamara Backhouse, University of East Anglia)

11:50 – Panel Q&A

12:10 – Abstracts

12:45 – Lunch, networking and poster viewing

13:45 – An unexpected journey. Improving care of patients choosing to withdraw ventilation. (Professor Christina Faull, University of Leicester)

14:20 – more afternoon running order to be released shortly…