We are facilitating a series of webinars, workshops and roundtables that will enable our members to:
learn more about key issues
share your knowledge and experience to inform our work
discuss problems and solutions with your peers
get practical guidance to move work forward.
How it works
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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.
Join the conversation
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Dates for future Big Conversations will be advertised here.
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Previous sessions
In this workshop on 3rd July 2024, we were joined by Dr. Sabrina Bajwah from the Cicely Saunders Institute at King’s College London, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. Dr Bajwah facilitated a discussion about how hospices across the UK can deliver equitable palliative and end of life care to all ethnicities.
In this webinar on 27th June 2024, we asked how complexity can be measured in the context of palliative care. We explored how increasing complexity links to the resources needed to deliver care, and how this might link to costs and reimbursement.
Speakers included Gary Stinson, Payment Development Manager, NHS England; Matthew Grant, Palliative Medicine Physician/Assistant Professor at University Medical Centre Utrecht and University of Melbourne; Fliss Murtagh, Director of the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre.
On 11th June 2024 we explored the creation of a national career pathway for nurses and allied health professionals in palliative and end of life care (PEOLC). We were joined by Professor Vanessa Taylor, Huddersfield University and Lesley Goodburn, NHS England. They shared their expertise and insights on:
the development of a core capability framework and associated qualifications, designed to enhance specialised expertise for PEOLC nurses
the progress made so far in these initiatives and the potential implications for the clinical workforce
how resources developed to share lived experience might support education and development.
We were joined on 14th May 2024 by Karen Hayllar, the Senior Lead in NHS England’s ‘Making Data Count’ team.
Karen explained the value of statistical process control (SPC) charts to analyse patient safety incident data as part of a hospice’s continuous improvement journey.
We learnt:
the differences between quality assurance and performance management
how recognising variation in data over time can be used to support conversations about safety and quality.
If you work in palliative and end of life care, you can find support, development opportunities, resources, and guidance and access our networks and communities on Hospice UK’s I...
