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.

Join us to explore the latest Hospice UK data collation results. During the session we will:
- share key figures and what they reveal about hospice care across the UK
- discuss how the data can be used at both national and local levels
- explore ways to keep improving the data and how it can help demonstrate the impact of hospice care.
This session is open to all Hospice UK member hospices. In particular it will be useful for hospice leaders, clinicians and data leads.
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Hospices on NHS contracts in England are contractually obliged to report data to NHS England via what was the Community Services Dataset (CSDS) and is now Faster Data Flows (FDF).
Over the past couple of years, we, as the hospice sector, have been considering and consolidating our data definitions, recording and reporting. Hospice UK has been engaging with NHS England about national reporting requirements.
At this Big Conversation workshop we will hear from the FDF team about:
- what the dataset is
- how it is reported from clinical systems
- which hospices are in the phase one roll out
- how other hospices can get involved.
We look forward to seeing as many of our members in England as possible at this workshop. It is important in the context of national currencies and any national funding solution that our sector's data is visible at this level.
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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the Masonic Charitable Foundation and MDDUS 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.