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Evidence Based Practice and Research in Palliative Care for Children

Date
2 May 2019, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Organisation
Shooting Star Children's Hospices
Location
Whiteley Village
Address
Walton on Thames, Surrey, KT12 4EH
Price
£78 + VAT

This one day children’s palliative care conference is aimed at those working in healthcare who are involved with providing palliative and end of life care for children and young people. The content is suitable for doctors, nurses, care assistants and therapists.

Presentations:

  • Keynote: evidence based practice. Dr AK. Anderson
  • What don’t we know, and does it matter? Dr Bryony Beresford
  • ‘Juggling amidst complexity’ – hospice staff’s experience of providing palliative care for infants referred from a neonatal unit. Prof Jayne Price
  • Interprofessional Learning in a Children’s Hospice. Suzie Gannon
  • End of life care: A parent’s perspective. Catherine van’t Riet
  • Service Evaluation: Signs and symptoms experienced by children in the last 7 days of life. Kimberley Burke
  • Creative methods of evaluating groups/events/care. Sarah Hodkinson
  • Spirituality Prof Wilf McSherry
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