Morning programme: 09.30 hrs until 13.30 hrs BST (UTC + 1)
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2023 conference videos and details
09:30 George Smerdon, Chair of Trustees
PCW Annual General MeetingThe Annual General Meeting is open to all who wish to attend either on Zoom or in person
10:00
Conference Registration – tea/coffee available
10:30 George Smerdon, Chair of Trustees
Welcome and introduction
10:35 Robert Yates, Political Health Economist and Honorary Associate Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keynote speaker: Championing palliative care in universal health reforms
11:05
Opportunity for Qs and As
11:15 Presentation from Sokoine Hospital Palliative Care Team in SE Tanzania: Faraja Kilewa, Midwife and Peter Masinde, Pharmacist
What has been achieved following PCW training
11:35
Refreshment break Reminder: Audience please prepare questions/comments for Panel at 13:10
11:50 Fiona Rawlinson, Trustee, PCWProfessor at Cardiff University and Programme Director for the Palliative Medicine for Health Care Professionals’ MSc and postgraduate palliative care short courses. Consultant in Palliative Medicine, City Hospital Community, Cardiff
How do we evaluate the work PCW does?
12:00 Ruth Alderton, Trustee, PCW Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Prospect Hospice Anu Savio, Nurse Consultant, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry, India, The spark that lit the flame.
Reaching minorities: introduction Increasing access to address inequity
12:15 Sally Hull, Chair of Trustees, Hospice Care Kenya UK
Training Community Health Volunteers for Palliative Care in Kenya
12:35 Dr Seema Rao, Director of Education & Research, Bangalore Hospice Trust and Head, Karunashraya Institute for Palliative Care Education and Research
Mental health challenges in palliative care
12:50 Marie Cooper, Senior Nurse Advisor, Centre for Awareness and Response to End of Life, St Christopher?s Hospice, London, The Global Palliative Nursing Network (GPNN) and Beacons of Care Projects
13:10 Robert Yates, Sally Hull, Seema Rao, Marie Cooper and George Smerdon, Audience participation with panel of speakers:
Your opportunity to raise questions and reflections on the conference presentations and /or challenges and difficulties you have experienced and how they have been resolved. Participants to send in questions by email before the conference or place in chat box during the morning.
13:30
Conference ends on Zoom
Lunch will be provided for delegates at Sobell House
There will be a meeting in the afternoon of PCW Trustees and Associates. In-house delegates are warmly invited to stay.
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