About this event

  • Date and time Wed 19 Nov 2025 from 9:00am to 5:10pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Palliative Care

Join us for this transformative conference on Palliative Care for Mental Health patients.  

This insightful and engaging conference is dedicated to exploring the intersections of mind, body, and soul in the palliative care of individuals living with mental illness or learning disabilities. The event brings together leading experts to share knowledge, lived experience, and best practices for supporting the spiritual, emotional, and practical needs of these patients. 

Through a series of lectures, interactive workshops, and reflective case-based discussions, participants will gain valuable tools and perspectives to enhance compassionate, person-centered care.

This conference aims to provide a comprehensive overview of innovative and effective practices in palliative care for people with mental health conditions by:

  • Deepening your understanding of approaches for working with individuals with severe mental illness or learning disabilities.
  • Learning from real-world best practice examples that highlight creative and compassionate care strategies.
  • Exploring the complexities of capacity assessments in mental health settings and how to navigate them ethically and effectively.
  • Embracing personalised and creative approaches to palliative care that honour each patient’s unique story and needs.
  • Gaining awareness of current national and global trends and challenges in delivering equitable and inclusive palliative services.

We welcome professionals from across mental health, palliative care, social care, and allied disciplines to join this important conversation.

By attending the conference, you will:

  • Gain an overview of innovations in best practice for meeting palliative needs of people with mental illness by: Deepening understanding of approaches for working with people with severe mental illness or learning disabilities to deliver palliative care
  • Learn from best practice examples
  • Understand the importance of personalised approaches
  • Gain awareness of current issues
  • Consider how services can make it easier for people to access help

The Palliative Care Section: George Adams Prize and Annual abstract prize will also be presented and awarded at the conference.

 

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Tickets

Early Bird pricing available until 07 October 2025.

Social workers, social care professionals and non clinical researchers can register for the meeting using the AHP rate. 

Member

RSM Fellow RSM Associate RSM Retired Fellow RSM Trainee RSM Student
£77.00 £46.00 £46.00 £46.00 £24.00

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors AHP / Nurse / Midwife Non Healthcare Professional Trainee Student Prize Presenter
£141.00 £84.00 £84.00 £84.00 £44.00 £24.00

Agenda

View the programme 19 November 2025

Registration, tea and coffee

Welcome and introduction
Mind, body and soul in healthcare

Professor John Swinton

Questions and answers
Challenging capacity assessments in psychiatry and palliative care

Professor Gareth Owen

Questions and answers
Tea and coffee break

Presentation of open papers
Lunch

Workshops
Post churchill fellowship workshop

Professor Sarah Yardley and Sara Draper

Learning disability and palliative care

Dr Laura Korb

Attachment theory and palliative care

Hannah Cadogan and Amanda McKenzie

Art therapy in palliative care

Mandy Bruce

Tea and coffee break

Panel discussion: Policy and epistemic injustice

Dr Natasha Bradley, Dr Phillipa Greenfield and Fiona Nolan

Questions and answers
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 18 November 2025. Late registrations will not be accepted.

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’s 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.

While you’re attending this event

Why not stay in the comfort of our hotel, Domus Medica, book dinner in the restaurant, or even hire one of our private dining rooms to socialise with your peers?

RSM members enjoy access to our enviable club facilities. For more information, please contact our team at domus@rsm.ac.uk or restaurant@rsm.ac.uk.

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