Palliative and End-of-Life Care Conference 2026

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Overview

Agenda

• 9.00am

  Registration

• 9.50am

  Chair’s Opening Remarks

• 10.00am

  Keynote: Parliamentary Updates on End of Life and Palliative Care

  • Key updates on the progression of Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill through Parliament
  • Examining committee hearings considering evidence and recommending safeguards for assisted dying
  • Highlighting cross-party efforts to expand patient choice and improve end-of-life care options
  • Reviewing professional guidance on ensuring access and allowing clinicians to opt out where necessary

  Prof. Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, Consultant, Velindre Cancer Hospital, Cardiff and Professor of Palliative Medicine and Commissioner, Palliative and End-of-Life Care Commission (CONFIRMED)

• 10.20am

  Keynote: Balancing Competing Demands of Hospice Care

  • Evaluating sustainable funding and commissioning models for hospice care
  • Innovating workforce structures and partnerships to respond to changing needs
  • Ensuring high-standard is quality and compassionate while managing operational and financial pressures.
  • Involve patients and family care givers in co-designing hospice services

  Katie Reade, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Hospice UK (CONFIRMED)

  

• 10.40am

  Case Study: Shifting Palliative and End of Life Care to the Community

  • Exploring how effective community-based palliative care improves patient quality of life and supports families, reducing unnecessary hospital admissions
  • Analysing the potential of centralised access points for palliative and end-of-life care
  • Examining opportunities for funding community palliative care
  • Highlighting approaches for collaboration between primary care, hospices and social services

  Sam Royston, Executive Director of Research and Policy, Marie Curie (CONFIRMED)

  

• 11:00am

  Questions and Answers

• 11.20am

  Breakout Networking:

  This session invites attendees to connect and share strategies for integrating palliative care into care settings. Participants can engage in small-group discussions to exchange practical tools, identify partnership opportunities and explore ways to strengthen continuity of care across the patient journey

• 11.50am

  Comfort Break

• 12.05pm

  Case Study: Supporting Remote Monitoring of Home-based Palliative patients: Insights from the Comfort Tracker App

  • Outlining how the Comfort Tracker app enables patients and family caregivers to log symptoms in real time, and help community teams respond proactively, thereby reducing unplanned admissions and isolation.
  • Addressing inequalities in palliative and end-of-life care: how digital tools can help bridge geographical and cultural access gaps
  • Reflecting on implementing remote monitoring in the last-12-months of life
  • Highlighting the need for integrated service provider partnership models (community + acute + hospice)
  • Future directions for digital innovation in PEoLC.

  Dr Rachel Melsom, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (CONFIRMED)

  

• 12.25am

  Keynote: Advanced Care Planning in Palliative and End of Life Care

  Karen Chumbley, Interim Co-Ceo, St Helena Hospice (CONFIRMED)

  

• 12.45pm

  Case Study: Death Doulas and a Personal Approach to End-of-Life Care

  • Lessons about a personalised approach to palliative care that addresses the emotional needs of patients
  • Facilitating open and honest conversations with patients about death that seek to remove the stigma
  • Learning to support patients dying with dignity by supporting them with their own care and control of their environment and final days
  • Tools for supporting families and caregivers, including after-death support

  Dr Kathryn Mannix, Palliative Care Doctor and Author (invited)

• 1.05pm

  Questions & Answers 

• 1.25pm

  Chairs Closing Remarks

• 1.30pm

  Conference Close

Get in Touch

Previous Speakers

Dr Harrie Cedar

Associate Professor

Kings College London

Dr Sam Royston

Executive Director of Research and Policy

Marie Curie

Professor Aneez Esmail

Professor(Emeritus) of General Practice

University of Manchester

Katherine Gray

Head of Research

Alzheimer’s Society

Testimonials

Why You Should Attend?

• Hear a diverse group of speakers lend their expertise and experience on palliative care
• Gain insights from policymakers and those at the forefront of palliative care
• Get practical knowledge on providing the best care for patients from case studies
• Gain 4 hours of CPD points towards your yearly total.

Who Should Attend?

Pricing Options

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Virtual vs F2F

Whilst F2F provide better options for networking, there are many distinct advantages of sponsoring our online conferences including:

• Wider geographical reach of delegates and a different audience who prefer online to f2f
• Lower sponsorship package costs
• No travel/accommodation
• Less time out of the office
• No stand materials required (lower costs)
• 1 of only 2 sponsors involved – less competition on the day
• Prime speaking slot in the morning of the conference including Q&A – less distractions and easier for delegates to hear/absorb information
• Receive all delegate data after the conference to follow-up directly with those who attend and don’t attend (small % but still key stakeholders)
• Ongoing exposure via OnDemand access (coming soon)

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