Meeting challenges in palliative care: Lessons from around the world

Wednesday 20 June 2012

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

A joint meeting with Help the Hospices

We are no longer accepting registrations for this meeting via the website. If you would like to attend this meeting please contact Victoria Caine on 020 7290 2984.

Places are still available for the meeting, however at this stage we may not be able to offer you lunch.

Aims

This study day aims to explore the challenges and opportunities that face palliative care in the 21st century. Changing disease burdens, demographic trends, funding patterns and technological advances mean new models of care need are needed to meet the diverse needs of our growing patient population and new skills must be developed to deliver them. This day will take a global perspective in order to look at these challenges and highlight examples of innovative practice internationally to suggest future directions. It will highlight the range of opportunities available to work overseas and delegates will have the opportunity to meet with organizations and services supporting this.

Objectives

To explore the problems and opportunities facing palliative care today
To learn about new models of care from around the world and understand what relevance they may have for our practice
To develop skills to support new and innovative ways of working
To meet with organizations supporting volunteering or working for palliative care organizations overseas

Target Audience
This day will be of interest to those working in the field of palliative care, particularly to those with an interest in the development of services, collaborating or working overseas and those interested in the global perspective of palliative care. It will also be of interest to those working in the fields of care of the elderly, public health and international or global health.
This day will also cover relevant aspects from the 2010 palliative medicine curriculum for specialty trainees to help them meet these learning needs.

In addition to this meeting we have a photographic exhibition displayed in the Auchi Foyer courtesy of photographer Nadia Bettega displaying work with the Diana Memorial Fund.

Early Bird rates have been extended until the 6 June 2012

9.30 am	Registration, tea and coffee
New Models
Chair: Heather Richardson, National Clinical Lead, Help the Hospices
10.00 am	Why is global perspective important?
	David Praill, Chief Executive, Help the Hospices
	Dr Cynthia Goh, Senior Consultant & Head, Department of Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Center Singapore
10.45 am	International trends in palliative care
	Barbara Gomes, King's College London
11.05 am	New models in African palliative care
	Dr Liz Grant, Deputy Director, Global Health Academy, University of Edinburgh
11.25 am	Community engagement in palliative care
	Libby Sallnow, Research Fellow, St Joseph's Hospice, University of Edinburgh
11.45 am	Panel discussion
12.00 pm	Lunch + AGM
New Skills
Chair: Libby Snallow, Research Fellow, St Joseph's Hospice, University of Edinburgh
1.00 pm	Embracing death in all its glory
	Richard Smith, Chair, Patients Know Best and Former Editor, BMJ
1.45 pm	Using the palliative care tool kit in low income settings
	Karilyn Collins MBE Palliative Care Works
2.00 pm	The dual challenges of HIV and cancer in sub-Saharan Africa
	Karen Frame, Consultant Palliative Medicine, Imperial College
2.15 pm	Panel discussion
2.30 pm	Tea and coffee break
New Groups
Chair: Yolande Saunders, Consultant in Palliative Medicine
3.00 pm	Palliative care in advanced dementia
	Ladislav Volicer, MD PhD, School of Ageing Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
3.40 pm	Namaste care for people with advanced dementia (with St Christopher's Hospice)
	Joyce Simard MSW Geriatric Consultant, St Christopher's Hospice
	Jo Hockley, Clinical Nurse Specialist, St Christopher's Hospice
4.00 pm	Panel discussion
4.15 pm	What does this mean for palliative care? A way forward
	Professor Scott Murray, St Columba's Hospice Chair of Primary Palliative Care, Primary Palliative Care Research Group
4.45 pm	Completion of evaluation forms
4.50 pm	Close of meeting
Meeting ref: PLC05 CPD: 5 credits

Presentations

The presentations from this event can be downloaded below:

The Royal Society of Medicine

Meeting challenges in palliative care: Lessons from around the world

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