Palliative care: Diversity in action
Wednesday 23 September 2009
Venue: Manchester Dental Education Centre, Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester, M15 6FH
This one day conference brings together leading experts in palliative care and related specialities to provide important updates in palliative and end of life care. Its overall aim is to pose the challenge of delivering appropriate services across a diverse range conditions from the perspective of the individual person and their professional carers.
Registration Details:
Early Bird Fellow: £65
Early Bird Associate: £45
Early Bird RSM Trainee: £45
Early Bird RSM Student: £20
Retired Fellow: £45
Early Bird Non-Fellow: £125
Early AHP: £65
Early Bird Trainee: £65
Early Bird Student: £25
Early Bird Nurse: £65
Early Retired Fellow: £45
CPD (Applied for): 5 credits
9.00 am |
Registration and coffee |
9.30 am |
Welcome address |
| Dr Paul Miller, Sub-dean, Royal Society of Medicine, Liverpool & Manchester Region | |
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Session one |
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| Chair: Dr Stephanie Gomm | |
9.35 am |
Keynote lecture: Non-pharmacological interventions for cancer pain management |
| Professor Michael Bennett, Professor of Palliative Medicine international Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University | |
10.10 am |
Palliative care and the flu pandemic |
| Dr Wendy Makin, Consultant Palliative medicine, Christie Foundation NHS Trust, Manchester | |
10.40 am |
Prion disease and Palliative Care |
| Dr Catherine Pennington, Research Registrar, National CJD Surveillance Unit, University of Edinburgh | |
11.15 am |
Coffee |
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Session two |
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| Chair: Dr Wendy Makin, Consultant Palliative medicine, Manchester | |
11.45 am |
Treatment decisions in progressing cancer-- whose choice is it anyway? |
| Views from: Dr Teresa Tate, Palliative Care Physician, Dr Richard Cowan, Oncologist, Dr Petula Chattergee, GP and Practice Based Commissioning Lead for Cancer and End of Life, Mr Jim Belcher, Manchester | |
1.00 pm |
Lunch |
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Session three |
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| Chair: Dr Terry McDonnell, CEO St Ann's Hospice | |
2.00 pm |
Keynote lecture: to CPR or not to CPR |
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Prof. Claud Regnard, Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine, St. Oswald's Hospice, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust and Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne |
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| Chair: Dr Teresa Tate, Palliative Care Physician | |
2.45 pm |
Debate-- Outreach services for palliative care: to infinity and beyond? |
| Proposers: Dr Rosemary Lennard, Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine, Bradford and Dr David Waterman, Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine, Stockport Opposers: Dr James Gilbert, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Exeter and Dr Barbara Downes, Consultant Palliative Medicine, Bolton | |
3.45 pm |
Discussion |
4.00 pm |
Closing remarks |
| Dr Paul Miller, Sub-dean, Royal Society of Medicine, Liverpool & Manchester Region | |
