News of new PCW Associateship – George Smeardon

PCW is delighted to report that the inaugural meeting of the ne Associate body and PCW Trustees took place online on Friday May 10th.

The meeting was chaired by Chair of Trustees, George Smerdon and 17 out of the 19 Associates, along with 9 Trustees, joined in a 90 minutes meeting on zoom. Participants from as Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana, Palestine and India as well as from UK took part.

There was an introductory address given by George which included the back ground to the Associateship initiative.

NB This is available under resources along with a paper on the role of an Associate.

This was followed by a short presentation by Dr Simon Pennell, one of the new Associates, who talked about his past and present contribution to the work of PCW by way of illustrating how Associates might become involved in PCW projects and pieces of work. There are of course many different ways of joint working and collaboration.

It had been hoped to break out into discussion groups based around sharing palliative care experiences, something about teaching and learning experiences and also exploring the potential for collaboration across the various work programmes in which people are involved. PLUS, whatever came up!

Sadly, this was not possible due to a technical glitch. However, a lively discussion and exchange of ideas did take place across the large group. It is hoped that these conversations will continue informally via a WhatsApp group.

Updates will be posted in due course

My grateful thanks to all who participated in this exciting event and to those who helped to organise it.