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End of Life Care
19 Oct 2010
2nd National Conference: Joining up services across health and social care. Held at King's Fund Conference Centre London
This conference considered some of the current issues in palliative and end of life care at a local and national level but concentrated on the issues and challenges that come from living longer with symptoms and how this affects patients and their carers.
Programme
09:50
Professor Peter Littlejohns, Clinical and Public Health Director, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Welcome and introduction from Conference Chair
Biography: Professor Peter Littlejohns
10:00
Professor Sir Mike Richards CBE, National Clinical Director for Cancer and End of Life Care, Department of Health
Keynote address: progress on implementing the End of Life Care Strategy
Biography: Professor Sir Mike Richards CBE
10:20
Jonathan Ellis, Director of Public Policy and Parliamentary Affairs, Help the Hospices
Delivering services amidst a new political landscape: the hospice perspective
Biography: Jonathan Ellis
10:40
Eve Richardson, Chief Executive, National Council for Palliative Care and the Dying Matters Coalition
Working together to raise public awareness to improve palliative and end of life care for all
Biography: Eve Richardson
11:00
Questions and discussion: Session 1
11:10
Refreshments, networking and exhibition
11:40
Claire Henry, Programme Director, National End of Life Care Programme, National Health Service
How do we address the practicalities in the implementation of the end of life care strategy
Biography: Claire Henry
12:00
Deborah Murphy, Directorate Manager Palliative Care, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Associate Director, Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool and National Lead Nurse LCP
LCP, Care of the Dying and QIPP Agenda
Biography: Deborah Murphy
12:15
Professor Keri Thomas, National Clinical Lead, Gold Standards Framework Centre, Walsall Primary Care Trust and Hon. Professor End of Life Care, University of Birmingham
Meeting the challenges of end of life care in care homes using the gold standards framework
Biography: Professor Keri Thomas
12:30
Les Storey, National Lead, Preferred Priorities for Care (PPC), NHS End of Life Care Programme
Preferred Priorities for Care: findings from the Cheshire, Essex and Lancashire pilots
Biography: Les Storey FRCN, FHEA, RGN, MSc
12:45
Questions and discussion: Session 2
12:55
Buffet lunch, networking and exhibition
13:55
Rt Hon Andrew Lansley CBE MP, Secretary of State for Health
Keynote address: commissioning in cold climate
Biography: Rt Hon Andrew Lansley CBE MP
14:20
Mike Gordon, Chief Executive, Healthcare at Home
Transforming end of life care through home based care
Biography: Michael Gordon MBE
14:40
Niall Dickson, Chief Executive, General Medical Council
Treatment and care: a framework of good practice
Biography: Niall Dickson
15:00
Questions and discussion: Session 3
15:15
Refreshments, networking and exhibition
15:45
Seminar A: Good practice models: practical ideas for working practices for EoLC providers
Dame Barbara Monroe, Chief Executive, St Christopher’s Hospice
Professor Margaret Holloway, Social Care Lead, National End of Life Care Programme and Professor of Social Work, University of Hull
Biography: Professor Margaret Holloway
Biography: Barbara Monroe
15:45
Seminar B: Improving personalised care
Dawn Harbour, Care Home Manager, The Gables Specialist Nursing Home
Carol Courtney, Admiral Lead Nurse, North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus
Biography: Carol Courtney
Biography: Dawn Harbour
15:45
Seminar C: Empowering care at home
Andrew Donald, Chief Operating Officer, Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust
Biography: Andrew Donald
15:45
Seminar D: Chicken and egg: what comes first to improve EoLC across the patient pathway?
Dr Jayne Chidgey-Clark, Director, Modernisation Initiative End of Life Care Programme, Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital
Susanna Shouls, Programme Manager, Modernisation Initiative End of Life Care Programme, Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital
Biography: Dr Jayne Chidgey-Clark
Biography: Susanna Shouls