International LCP Conference 2011 - care of the dying: Everyone's business

Thursday 1 December 2011

Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE

A joint meeting with Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool

Registration is now closed. If you would like to attend but have not pre-registered then please contact the co-ordinator on 020 7290 2984.


Registration Details:
Consultant/GP: £150
RSM Retired Fellow: £65
RSM Student: £65
RSM Trainee: £80
RSM Associate: £80
RSM Fellow: £90
Student: £70
Trainee: £100
AHP/Nurse/Midwife: £100


9.00 am

Registration
Chair: Professor Carl Johan Fürst,
Professor of Palliative Medicine, Stockholms Sjukhem and Karolinska Institute Sweden

9.45 am

Welcome and introduction

9.55 am

Keynote Speaker:
Dying in America: Lessons learnt and future visions'
Professor Susan Block,
Chair, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Professor at Department of Medicine & Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School USA

10.20 am

LCP-Pampa: Perspectives from Argentina
Professor Gustavo De Simone,
Medical Director, Pallium Latinoamerica NGO / Co-ordinator of Palliative Care Programme - Ministry of Health in Buenos Aires

10.45 am

Care of the dying in Europe
Professor John Ellershaw,
Director, Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool
National Deputy Clinical Lead for End of Life Care, Department of Health

11.10 am

Questions and panel discussion

11.20 am

Tea, coffee and poster exhibition
Chair: Dr Urska Lunder,
Director of Palliative Care Services, University Hospital for Respiratory Disease Golnik Slovenia

11.50 am

The effectiveness of the LCP in improving End of Life Care for dying cancer patients in hospital: An update from the ongoing Italian cluster randomised trial
Dr Massimo Costantini,
Director of the Regional Palliative Care Network, National Cancer Institute Genoa Italy

12.10 pm

The Challenges of developing an electronic database for the LCP in the Netherlands
Inneke Lokker,
Researcher / PhD-Candidate, Department of Public Health and Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus Medical Centre, The Netherlands

12.30 pm

Care of the Dying: The role of psychosocial care
Professor Raymond Voltz
Director Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Cologne Germany

12.50 pm

Questions and panel discussion

1.00 pm

Lunch and poster exhibition
Chair: Professor Gustavo De Simone,
Medical Director, Pallium Latinoamerica NGO / Co-ordinator of Palliative Care Programme - Ministry of Health in Buenos Aires

2.00 pm

LCP research into practice: Building on the international agenda
Deborah Murphy,
Associate Director, Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool / National Lead Nurse LCP

2.20 am

Staff perceptions of the LCP : Improving Care of the Dying in New Zealand
Dr Jean Clark,
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Education & Research Unit Arohanui Hospice, and Hospital Palliative Care Team, Palmerston North, New Zealand

2.40 pm

National Care of the Dying audit hospitals (NCDAH) - Results round 3
Tamsin McGlinchey,
Research Assistant, Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool / NCDAH3 Lead Co-ordinator

2.55 am

GMC Care of the Dying: The ethical legal framework
Lady Christine Eames OBE,
Chair of the GMC Working Group on Treatment and Care towards the End of Life

3.20 am

Questions and panel discussion

3.35 am

The cost of care - Can we afford End of Life Care?
Tom Hughes Hallett,
Chief Executive, Marie Curie Cancer Care

4.00 pm

Completion of evaluation forms

4.05 pm

Close of meeting

Meeting ref: PLC02

CPD (Applied for)


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