2nd National Conference: Joining up services across health and social care. Held at King's Fund Conference Centre London
This conference considered some of the current issues in palliative and end of life care at a local and national level but concentrated on the issues and challenges that come from living longer with symptoms and how this affects patients and their carers.
Programme
09:50
Professor Peter Littlejohns, Clinical and Public Health Director, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Deborah Murphy, Directorate Manager Palliative Care, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Associate Director, Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool and National Lead Nurse LCP
Professor Keri Thomas, National Clinical Lead, Gold Standards Framework Centre, Walsall Primary Care Trust and Hon. Professor End of Life Care, University of Birmingham
Meeting the challenges of end of life care in care homes using the gold standards framework
Seminar A: Good practice models: practical ideas for working practices for EoLC providers
Dame Barbara Monroe, Chief Executive, St Christopher’s Hospice
Professor Margaret Holloway, Social Care Lead, National End of Life Care Programme and Professor of Social Work, University of Hull
Dawn Harbour, Care Home Manager, The Gables Specialist Nursing Home
Carol Courtney, Admiral Lead Nurse, North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus
Biography: Carol Courtney
Biography: Dawn Harbour
15:45
Seminar C: Empowering care at home
Andrew Donald, Chief Operating Officer, Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust
Biography: Andrew Donald
15:45
Seminar D: Chicken and egg: what comes first to improve EoLC across the patient pathway?
Dr Jayne Chidgey-Clark, Director, Modernisation Initiative End of Life Care Programme, Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital
Susanna Shouls, Programme Manager, Modernisation Initiative End of Life Care Programme, Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital