Description
We welcome you to the annual Marie Curie palliative care research conference
Organised by the Royal Society of Medicine and Marie Curie, this conference boasts key speakers alongside the most up-to-date research projects for implementing new models of palliative care.
This year’s conference focuses on identifying and understanding how radical and new models of palliative and end of life care work in practice, and how they can help to address current challenges in this important area.
topics include:
How radical and new models of palliative and end of life care are being used in clinical practice
Identifying new and innovative approaches to addressing the challenges in palliative and end of life care
Discuss and share best practice between health and social care professionals and researchers to improve learning around the implementation of new models of care
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agenda
9.00 am
Registration, tea and coffee and poster viewing
9.45 am
Welcome and introduction
10.00 am
Specialist palliative care at home – multi site evaluation of one model
Professor Bridget Johnston, Florence Nightingale Foundation Professor of Clinical Nursing Practice Research, University of Glasgow and Representative, Macmillan Cancer Support
10.25 am
Question and answer session
10.35 am
Integrated working – it can work if you really want it to
Ms Rebecca Cooper, Director of Palliative care Services, Norfolk Hospice and Ms Lyndsay Carter, CEO, Norfolk Hospice
11.00 am
Question and answer session
11.10 am
Tea and coffee break and poster viewing
11.40 am
Organisational change for person-centred care: early lessons of Buurtzorg experience in Britain
Mr Brendan Martin, Managing Director, Public World and Buurtzorg Britain and Ireland
12.15 pm
Question and answer session
12.35 pm
Presentation of Susie Wilkinson award
12.35 pm
Lunch and poster viewing
1.50 pm
Lightning oral presentations
a
Evaluation of a nurse directed beds model of care in a stand alone hospice inpatient unit (IPU)
Ms Wendy Hills, Director of Nursing and Care Services, Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent
b
Learning from a new model of end of life care for older people with frailty/multi-morbidities’ – the challenges and opportunities for specialist palliative care services.
Ms Jan Noble, Service Development and Transformation Lead, St Christopher’s Hospice
c
Is it acceptable to use technical monitoring to assess palliative care patients’ level of consciousness? A qualitative exploration with patients and relatives
Ms Anna-Maria Krooupa, PhD Student, Marie Curie Palliative care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry, University College London
2.20 pm
Developing innovation in palliative care: From the British hospices to palliative care services to public health programs to chronic care palliative approach to compassionate communities
Professor Xavier Gomez-Batiste, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre, Cátedra de Cures Palliatives and Chair of Palliative care, University of Vic, Spain
3.00 pm
Question and answer session
3.10 pm
Lightning oral presentations
d
Designing dying well: Toward a new architectural approach of in-patient palliative care environments
Ms Annie Bellamy, PhD Candidate, University of Cardiff
e
What needs to change to better support carers at end of life? A multi-perspective mixed methods study to identify recommendations for change in organisational structures and processes
Dr Gail Ewing, Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge
f
Compassionate neighbours – an innovative model building caring communities
Ms Carly Attridge, Head of Volunteering, St Joseph’s Hospice
3.40 pm
Presentation of Joanna Mugridge prize
3.55 pm
Debate: Why is it difficult to get new models of care commissioned or implemented?
4.40 pm
Closing remarks
4.45 pm
Close of meeting