The Palliative Care Conference 2025

Past and Present Supporters include:

Overview

Palliative care is essential for ensuring dignity, comfort, and emotional support for patients and
families dealing with serious illness or nearing the end of life. This conference takes on particular
significance as:

• 65% of people are worried about access to palliative care (YouGov)
• 41% think the NHS is under-resourced to provide palliative care (YouGov)
• 16th October 2024 sees the Assisted Dying Bill formally introduced to Parliament.

Join us at the Palliative Care Conference 2025 conference for healthcare professionals, offering
comprehensive insights and practical strategies to enhance end-of-life care. The event covers
essential topics, including improving palliative care accessibility, advanced care planning for
dementia and pediatric patients, and holistic care approaches that integrate compassionate
communication and family feedback. Special focus is given to the digitalisation of palliative care,
where remote caregiving and digital appointments are increasingly vital as the proportion of
people dying at their usual place of residence increases. .

Agenda

• 9.00am

  Registration

• 9.30am

  Chair’s Opening Remarks

   

   

• 9.40am

  Keynote: Strategies Supporting Palliative Healthcare Workers

  • Offering support networks for professionals in palliative care settings, including counselling and debriefs
  • Guidance on strategies on how to approach senior colleagues when discussing mental health
  • Equipping frontline workers in palliative healthcare settings with the emotional tools to manage the intensity of palliative care
  • Reducing staff absences by decreasing the workload of staff
  • Advice on how to maintain positive working relationships in palliative settings

  Dr Harrie Cedar (CONFIRMED), Associate Professor, Kings College London

  

• 10.10am

  Keynote: The Current Goals of Palliative Care for the NHS:

  • Outlining the six ambitions and describe how policymakers can implement these at a ground level
  • Recentring clinical leadership at the heart of service provider and caregiving organisations
  • Reiterating the significance of person-centred care by maximising comfort and wellbeing
  • Increasing accessibility to care.
  • Continuing to support a highly trained, well educated and sustainable work force
• 10:40am

  Questions and Answers

• 11.00am

  Comfort Break

• 11.20am

  Case Study: Dementia and Palliative Care

  • Guidance on advanced care planning: giving patients with dementia the opportunity to plan ahead on how they would like to be cared for
  • Managing symptoms of dementia, including pain, agitation, confusion and anxiety
  • Ensuring carers have communication techniques that support patients
  • Lessons on how to prioritise comfort for patients with dementia
• 11.50am

  Case Study: Children and Palliative Care

  • Insights into parental attitudes towards high and low standard palliative healthcare for their children
  • Beginning bereavement support before death
  • Reforming the access and availability of palliative healthcare for children.
  • Advanced Care Planning for children and families to reduce uncertainty with families and reduce conflict with healthcare professionals
• 12:20pm

  Questions and Answers

• 12.40pm

  Lunch

• 1.30pm

  Keynote: Holistically Approaching Palliative Care

  • Practical strategies to encourage compassionate communication and shared decision making
  • Frameworks for patient-tailored symptom management
  • Integrating a range of healthcare professionals into the patients palliative care to ensure a personalised and well-rounded level of care
  • Incorporating the feedback from families and patients into future caregiving
• 2.00pm

  Case Study: Producing Better Outcomes Using Digitalised Predictive Care
  

  • Updates on the latest developments from the proactive risk and data driven assessment (PRADA) system
  • Outlining the complete digital care pathways for end of life patients
  • Considering how PRADA will support equitable access and outcomes of care
  • Facilitating Advanced Care Planning by ensuring care pathways include patients preferences, such as treatment at home

  Dr Baldev Singh, Physician & Clinical Director of IT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, (CONFIRMED)

  

• 2.30pm

  Questions & Answers

• 2.50pm

  Comfort Break

• 3.10pm

  Case Study: Palliative Care and Assisted Dying

  • Sharing findings from Canada and Belgium where the legislative introduction of assisted dying has improved the quality of palliative care
  • Contextualising evidence that suggests the desire for ‘a good death,’ where the person dying was cared for with compassion and provided with as much agency as possible
  • Insights into how the government intends to legislate on assisted dying
  • Considering the effect religion has on attitudes towards assisted dying
• 3.40pm

  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 empowering them with their own care and control of their environment and final days
  • Tools for supporting families and caregivers, including after-death support

  Sarah Parker, Founder, Dying with Grace (CONFIRMED)

  

• 4.10pm

  Questions and Answers

• 4.30pm

  Chair’s Closing Remarks

• 4.35pm

  Event End

Previous Speakers

Dr Sarah Holmes

Medical Director

Marie Curie

Sonja McIlfatrick

Professor of Nursing and Palliative Care

Ulster University

Heidi McIntyre

Homeless Palliative Care Coordinator

St Ann’s Hospice

Peter Gibson MP

Chair

APPG: Hospice and End of Life Care

Samantha White

Lead Nurse Specialist Palliative & End of Life Care

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Emma Husbands

Specialist in Palliative Medicine

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Gemma del toro

Service Manager/Clinical Lead, Dementia Palliative Care Team

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust

Laura Nohavicka

Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care

Helen & Douglas House

Testimonials

Why You Should Attend?

Why Attend:

• Hear a diverse group of speakers lend their expertise and experience on palliative care.
• Gain insights from policy-makers and those at the forefront of palliative care.
• Get practical knowledge on providing the best care for patients from case studies that
  reflect the ever changing and dynamic nature of palliative care.
• Gain CPD hours.

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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