Big conversations

Learn about and inform our work on the key issues facing Hospice UK members across the UK.

How it works

Webinars

These are online sessions with a large audience, where we will share information about the key issues affecting our sector. They give you a chance to hear from from Hospice UK and invited experts.

These sessions are aimed at anyone working or volunteering in a Hospice UK member organisation.

Workshops

Our workshops are practical sessions that share best practice. They aim to develop your skills in a particular area so you can take work forward in your hospice.

Our workshops are facilitated by Hospice UK subject experts, in collaboration with specialists from elsewhere. They are open to anyone working or volunteering in a Hospice UK member organisation, and sometimes a wider, targeted audience.

Roundtables

These smaller sessions provide an opportunity for people who are interested in a particular topic to discuss it in depth and share their experiences. We will invite hospice leaders to a roundtable to help inform our joint work.

We will be joined by Prof Fliss Murtagh, Professor of Palliative Care, and Director of the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, and Dr Alison Landon, Palliative Care Physician at St Christopher’s Hospice, for a workshop giving an overview of patient-centred outcome measures (PCOMs), including the Integrated Palliative Outcome Scale (IPOS) and Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance Scale (AKPS). We will explore what they are, why they are important, how to ask and record the data, and the clinical reality of how they are used in practice.
This workshop is aimed at frontline palliative care clinicians who would like to learn more about, or refresh their thinking on, how to collect and use this data. We are particularly keen to engage newer colleagues in this conversational workshop.

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We will be joined by Dr Natasha Wilcock, palliative care Doctor at Royal Trinity Hospice to discuss the Accessible Information Standard and Reasonable Adjustments Digital Flag and how hospices can meet their requirements to ensure information is provided in accessible formats to anyone with a disability, impairment or sensory loss.
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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the Masonic Charitable Foundation for their generous funding to support the hospice care sector.

Their funding helps us provide opportunities for hospices to engage in learning, share insights, discuss challenges with peers and receive practical guidance to advance their work.

Masonic Charitable Foundation Grants Lists

Find lists of grants issued by Masonic Charitable Foundation to hospices via Hospice UK.

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