Connect and collaborate with other paediatric palliative care professionals in this thought-provoking study day focusing on providing communication strategies and case study blueprints on overcoming common service challenges. Hear about effective models of transition, techniques on managing families’ expectations in their children’s end-of-life treatment and identify how you can implement effective change in your service.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to discover hands-on skills, effective systems and workable solutions to improve your paediatric palliative care provisions for your patients and their families!
5 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn
Are you looking to improve your communication skills and hear what other organisations are doing to improve their paediatric palliative care journey? Then join this exciting study and benefit from:
Developed with convenience in mind: join this online NHS event from the comfort of your own home
With an enhanced emphasis on networking, interactive discussion and idea sharing, this forum will provide you with tangible strategies to create change in your provision of palliative care:
This course is available for in-house training
9:00 |
Registration, technical support and networking opportunity
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9:30 |
Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks
Annabel Howell, Medical Director, Children's Hospices Across Scotland
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Supporting parents in paediatric palliative care | |
9:40 |
Navigating families’ expectations of palliative treatment whilst managing patient’s end-of-life needs
Claire Williams, Community Children's Nursing Service Manager and Cara Taylor, Children’s Community Nurse, Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
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10:10 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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10:20 |
Interactive discussion: Managing family expectations and patient treatment
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10:40 |
Feedback from interactive discussion: Managing family expectations and patient treatment
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10:50 |
Screen break
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Enhancing transition to adult palliative care | |
11:00 |
Investigating effective models of transition to adult end-of-life care teams
Helen Finlinson, Head of Inclusion and Development, Zest Project: Transition in Palliative Care, St Elizabeth Hospice
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11:30 |
Questions and answers with your speaker
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11:40 |
Interactive discussion: Palliative transition processes: Involving the right people, at the right time
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12:00 |
Feedback from interactive discussion: Palliative transition processes: Involving the right people, at the right time
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12:10 |
Lunch Break
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Navigating different culture in end-of-life care | |
12:40 |
Supporting cultural differences within palliative care journeys
Rev Paul Nash, Senior Chaplain, Children's Hospital Chaplaincy Team, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
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1:10 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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Paediatric palliative communication strategies | |
1:20 |
Interactive discussion: Benchmarking your communication strategies
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1:40 |
Feedback from interactive discussion: Benchmarking your communication strategies
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1:50 |
Achieving effective communication and collaboration with colleagues, parents and carers
Dr Finella Craig, Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
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2:20 |
Questions and answers with your speaker
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2:30 |
Screen break
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Next steps for your service | |
2:40 |
Interactive discussion: Action plan: Exploring your next steps to elevate your service
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3:00 |
Feedback from interactive discussion: Action plan: Exploring your next steps to elevate your service
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3:20 |
Chair’s closing remarks and close of day
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Confirmed speakers:
Dr Annabel Howell, from the Scottish Borders, is responsible for leading CHAS's medical services and works closely with the Director for Children and Families, Sue Hogg as well as other colleagues to deliver care.
Dr Howell has extensive experience working in palliative care, leading this for 14 years in NHS Borders until moving to CHAS. She is the Chair of the Scottish Paediatric End of Life Care Network (PELiCaN). During her career she has developed a passionate interest in transitions between children's and adult services for young people, and hospice at home services. She has also served as Associate Medical Director for acute services, clinical governance, and primary and community services in NHS Borders and was the Chair of the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care.
Annabel trained at the Royal Free Hospital in London. She went on to work in anaesthetics, adult intensive care and St Mary's paediatric intensive care, and spent short periods working in the children's hospitals in Edinburgh and Glasgow. She also completed her GP training and worked as a GP for a few years.
Dr Howell is a trustee and Vice Chair of the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, working with her interests in sports, research and fundraising. She worked as a team doctor for the GB Rowing Team ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
Serving as the Clinical Service Manager for the Children’s Community Nursing Service at Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Claire Williams leads a dedicated team of registered children’s nurses, health care support staff, and administrators. Together, they provide crucial care and support to children with acute, chronic, complex health, or palliative care needs.
Claire, alongside Sarah Glencrose, is in the process of establishing a Skills Lab after successfully securing funding from Kingston Hospital Charity’s Inspiration Fund. This initiative aims to meet the growing demand for comprehensive training in complex care delivery within the community.
Paul has worked at Birmingham Children’s Hospital since 2002 and has been the Senior Chaplain since 2004 managing our multi-faith team with specialisms in spiritual care with children, multi-faith bereavement care and staff support.
Paul is the chair of our Multi-Faith and Cultural Advisory group, the Multi-Disciplinary Spiritual Care Working Group and the Director of Red Balloon Resources which publishes in the fields of religious and spiritual care in relation to paediatric daily, palliative, end of life and bereavement care. He is also a member of the Chaplaincy Services Advisory Committee for the HealthCare Chaplaincy Network.
Finella Craig has served as a Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) since 2002. With a career in paediatrics dating back to 1989, she brings a wealth of experience to her role. Dr Craig is actively involved in The Child Death Helpline as a shift supervisor and is a Medical Practice Facilitator with Child Bereavement UK. Her training in palliative care includes extensive experience with both adult and paediatric palliative care services.
Finellas research efforts have focused on enhancing palliative care services for children with non-malignant diseases and she has contributed to several national and international service and policy documents.
Helen qualified as an Occupational Therapist at University of East Anglia in 2000 and in 2016 gained an MA in Leadership and Service Innovation from the University of Suffolk. She has worked at the Royal Free Hospital, Marie Curie Hospice, London, and Mildmay specialist HIV/AIDS hospice before joining St Elizabeth Hospice in 2007.
Helen has led the coproduction of Zest, a specialist young adult care and transition service at St Elizabeth Hospice, Suffolk, now recognised as a Centre of Excellence for young adult palliative care. She is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the University of Suffolk where teaches on the undergraduate nursing programmes on transition.
Helen completed a research fellowship in 2022 with the NIHR East of England Applied Research Collaborative, completing a service evaluation of an innovative residential short breaks for young adults with complex palliative care needs accessing the Zest service.
Currently working in the role of Head of Inclusion and Development at St Elizabeth Hospice, alongside transition and young adult palliative care, specialist areas include health inequalities, co-production and inclusion.
Pricing Structure
You can reserve a no-obligation place whilst you apply for funding
Expected attendees
Designed to enhance your palliative care service by focusing on overcoming common service challenges, this unique training will benefit professionals involved in paediatric palliative care, from hospices, paediatric palliative care teams and children community nursing teams. Those attended include but are not limited to:
Past attendee feedback
This training day is part of a series of events dedicated to paediatric palliative and end of life care teams. They have all provided an excellent level of training and knowledge, but don’t take our word for it, here is just some of the feedback we have received over the past few years:
“Good mix of speakers / topics covered. Breakout rooms are a good addition to be able to find out what other teams are doing across the country.”
NHS Grampian, Delivering Supportive Paediatric Palliative and End of Life Care, June 2023
“Very good. Clear understanding of the things I knew and learned new things as well.”
Queen's Hospital, Burton on Trent, Delivering Supportive Paediatric Palliative and End of Life Care, June 2023
“Interesting, relevant to clinical practice, informative.”
Alder Hey Children's NHS Trust, Delivering Supportive Paediatric Palliative and End of Life Care, June 2023
“Really enjoyed the course, really given a good insight to challenges we face with palliative patients, nice to speak to others.”
East Kent Community Health Children's Community Nursing Team, Delivering Supportive Paediatric Palliative and End of Life Care, June 2023
“Excellent day, well planned and some really good speakers with so much knowledge.”
Great Ormond Street Hospital, Improving Paediatric Palliative and End of Life Care Online Conference, Dec 2021
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