About this event

  • Date and time Wed 12 Jul 2023 from 9:00am to 5:00pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Paediatrics and Child Health, London School of Paediatrics

Palliative care is an incredibly important area of medicine, and we currently are not meeting NICE quality standards in providing all children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions appropriate care at the end of their life. 

By upskilling paediatric trainees, we can begin to address this gap in service and improve the general paediatrician's confidence in approaching children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions.

So join us for this meeting to improve your understanding, knowledge and skills to approach commonly encountered issues in paediatric palliative care, so you can confidently approach palliative patients and their families.

By attending, you will:

  • Understand which patients should be referred to palliative care and when
  • Recognise, assess, and manage a range of symptoms in palliative patients, including emergencies, both pharmacological and non-pharmacological
  • Develop an understanding of how to communicate with patients and their families
  • Understand the patient/family perspective of paediatric palliative care
  • Develop knowledge about perinatal and neonatal palliative care
  • Gain a further understanding of the post-death process and bereavement support
  • Appreciate the ethical complexity involved in palliative care

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Agenda

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Registration
Welcome and introduction

Chairs: Dr Emily Titherington, Paediatric Specialist Registrar, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Dr Hannah Devlin, Paediatric Specialist Registrar, West Middlesex University Hospital, Dr Gareth Jones, Paediatric Specialist Registrar, Great Ormond Street Hospital

Session 1

The what, who, when, why and where of paediatric palliative care

Dr Ella Aidoo, Paediatric Palliative Care Consultant, Evelina Childrens Hospital

Basic and emergency symptom management

Dr Dilini Rajapakse, Paediatric Palliative Care Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break

Session 2

Communication: Talking to patients and their families

Dr Finella Craig, Paediatric Palliative Care Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital

Parent perspective

Ms Georgina Lucas

Panel discussion
Lunch

Session 3

Neonatal and perinatal palliative care

Ms Alex Mancini, National Lead Nurse for Neonatal Palliative Care, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust

Bereavement and post-death care

Ms Tara Kerr-Elliot, Children's Palliative Care Nurse Specialist, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Doctoral Nursing Fellow, Great Ormond Street Hospital

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break
Interactive worksops
Palliative care cases

Dr Lizzie Bendle, Paediatric Palliative Care Consultant, Evelina London Children's Healthcare and Dr Gillian Hughes, Paediatric Palliative Care Consultant, Evelina London Children's Healthcare

Ethics case based discussion

Dr Joanna Laddie, Paediatric Palliative Care Consultant, Evelina London Children's Healthcare

Career Paths: Subspecialty training and alternative career paths

Dr Anna Chadwick, Specialist Registrar, Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Hannah Linford, Paediatric Consultant, Palliative Care, Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Closing remarks
Close of meeting

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on Tuesday 11 July 2023. Late registrations will not be accepted.

Disclaimer:

  • The agenda is subject to change at any time
  • If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM discretion.
  • All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.
  • This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.
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