Conference 2024

11th Annual Conference – a hybrid event
Reaching those Most in Need, Thinking Globally – Acting Locally

Hybrid Day Conference via Zoom: Saturday 19th October 2024

In person: Sobell House Study Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LE
or via Zoom

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 Meeting
The 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, PCW
Professor 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

13:30 

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.