Day 2: Wednesday 26 November

The ultimate guide to thriving under CQC and Charity Commission regulation

With speakers from international law firm DAC Beachcroft.

 Abstracts selected via the Call for Papers, to be announced.

👥: All delegates

This session will launch a new pack of Hospice UK resources to support hospices and local health boards with contracting guidance, consistent service descriptions and frameworks for staffing and costing.

Speakers: 

• Annette Alcock, Director of Programmes, Hospice UK
• Anita Hayes, Clinical Quality Lead, Hospice UK 
• Jane Turner, Chief Nursing Officer, Sue Ryder 
• Craig Duncan, Chief Operating Officer, Hospice UK

👥: CEOs, Clinical, Finance, People and Human Resources

Hear from two hospices who are piloting a new Greener Palliative Care Award developed by the Palliative Care Sustainability Network. 

You'll hear how hospices are making changes to their clinical practice to lessen their environmental impact, and be part of a discussion around the benefits and barriers to this.

Speakers:

• Angela Hayes, Nurse Fellow and Project Lead, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare 
• Dr Christine Mott, Medical Director, Acorns Children’s Hospices 
• Tiffany D’Silva, Junior Clinical Fellow in Palliative Medicine, Marie Curie Hospice, Cardiff and the Vale 

Chair: Paul Fraser, Deputy Director of Programmes, Hospice UK

👥: CEOs, Finance, Clinical

Session looking at integrated services across the system, including examples from primary care, community, hospice in reach to the acute hospital and ambulance service improvements.

Speakers:

• Alice Lee, CNN, St Barnabas Hospice 
• Dr Rakesh Koria, Acute Response Team GP, NHS Kent and Medway Ageing and Dying Well Clinical Lead 
• Dr Sarah Mitchell, GP, Primary Care Sheffield Proactive Care Team and National Clinical Director for Palliative and End of Life Care, NHS England
• Dr Liz Booyse, Chief Executive, City Hospice and Chair of Hospices Cymru

 👥: Clinical, CEOs, Trustees

This session will spotlight research on equity in bereavement support.

• Kerrie Jones, Bereavement Services Lead, Mary Stevens Hospice 
• Dr Sabrina Bajwah, Clinical Reader in the Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King’s College London, and Honorary Palliative Care Consultant at King’s College Hospital
• Dr Alison Penny, Assistant Director, Wellbeing, National Children’s Bureau; Director, Children Bereavement Network and Coordinator, National Bereavement Alliance 

 👥: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Community Engagement

Members of the Hospice UK Income Generation Leaders Network are invited to meet up with their peers.

 👥: Income Generation

Members of the Race Equity ECHO Network  are invited to meet up with their peers.

 👥: Race Equity ECHO Network members

Join us to find out how journal clubs work and how to implement them in your workplace.

Speakers:

• Sarah Stanley, Research Nurse, Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool 
• Dr Amara Nwosu, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, Lancaster Medical School

Chair: Professor Kate Flemming PhD RN, Head of Department, Department of Health Sciences, University of York

👥: Research, Clinical

 Abstracts selected via the Call for Papers, to be announced.

👥: All delegates

This session will talk about how leaders can support technology change, working with trustees and looking at risk management and funding with learning from within the hospice sector and beyond.

Speakers:

• Mark Hawkins, Chief Executive Officer, Rowcroft Hospice 
• Julia Mixter, Executive Director of Business Services, Anchor
• Speaker from PIB Insurance

Chair: Steve Thorlby-Coy, Director of Transformation, Hospice UK

Kindly supported by our Gold sponsors, PIB Insurance

👥: Technology leads, CEOs, Trustees

This session will expand on discussions about how different professions can work together more closely: GPs and integrated neighbourhood teams, district nursing, social care workforce and geriatricians. 

Speakers:

• Professor Fliss Murtagh, Professor of Palliative Care, Hull York Medical School 
• Deborah Sturdy CBE, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, Department of Health and Social Care 
• Prof Jugdeep Dhesi, President, British Geriatrics Society; Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Kings College London and Consultant Geriatrician, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust 

👥: Clinical, CEOs, Trustee

This session will explore good practice in how to engage with community.

• Gemma Allen, Director of Strategy, Innovation and Communications, The Mary Stevens Hospice and Co-founder and Lead, No Barriers Here

• Dr Jed Jerwood, Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, University of Birmingham; Advanced Clinical Academic Art Psychotherapist, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Co-founder, No Barriers Here

• Emma Browrigg, Poverty Proofing Health Team Manager, Children North East

 👥: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Community Engagement

Session on transition from children's to adult services, TBC.