Event Details
Collaborative Neonatal Palliative Care Pathways
What is it about?
Get 5 CPD hours to add to your professional development portfolio at this online networking conference which will focus on working collaboratively to improve palliative and end of life care for neonatal patients and their families. Book your place and benefit from case study presentations exploring the positive impact of service collaboration, how to integrate psychological support into your service and streamline the re-orientation of palliative care in the hospice or community. Previously held on the 12th January 2021, this educational forum was described as:
- 'a very valuable networking and learning opportunity'
- 'reaffirming, insightful and energising'
- 'excellent, relevant content with quality delivery of each presentation'
- ' a really great experience!'
Why should you attend?
Attend this interactive virtual networking conference and delve into case study presentations, share best practice advice and discuss the solutions to your common challenges in delivering neonatal palliative care. Log off with a clear view of how collaborative palliative care works across the country and the changes you can make to improve joined-up working, with specific emphasis on:
- Meeting each other - turn on your videos and microphones in the breakout rooms and really interact with your peers
- Engaging with speakers' presentations and Q&A – in the main conference room with a chair
- Taking part in facilitated interactive sessions – enabled by moderators in the breakout rooms
- Sharing feedback – using the chat box and moderators sharing content in the main conference room
Key learning outcomes
Benchmark your service and discover how neonatal palliative care works in other areas of the country by focussing on:
- Developing your palliative care MDT: building bridges with community and link nurses
- Exploring the ethical boundaries: difficult decisions, new technological interventions and symptom control
- Increasing support for neonatal palliative care: improving signposting and streamlined access mental health services
- Bridging the gap between secondary and primary care settings: supporting families transition to hospice care and provide holistic support for the whole the family
Who should attend?
This online forum has been researched with and designed to fulfil the needs of professionals dealing with palliative care across neonatal services, including:
- Neonatal Nurses, Matrons, Sisters and ANNPs
- Neonatal Clinical Leads and Consultants
- Neonatal Practice Facilitators, Educators, Managers and Leads
Sponsorship and exhibition opportunities
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Working with your association or network
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Past events
'Collaborative Pathways for Neonatal Palliative Care' took place on Tuesday 12th January 2021 and was rated as 'very good' or 'excellent' by 100% of attendees. The content for the online course was described as 'really valuable with lots of food for thought' and the overall experience of attending online was 'really great,' 'powerful' and 'enlightening.'
Developing pathways, streamlining palliative care services and updating your practice.
9.00 | Join, tech support and opportunity to network in your meeting room |
9.30 | Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks Alex Mancini, Pan London Lead Nurse for Neonatal Palliative Care, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and the True Colours Trust |
9.45 | Improving palliative care through collaborative working Building an external partnership with a hospice and reacting to an evolving situation Securing, improving, supporting and care throughout transportation Developing a bereavement process: working collaboratively with your MDT and hospice Fauzia Paize, Consultant Neonatologist, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust |
10.15 | Question and answer session with Fauzia Paize |
10.25 | Interactive discussion session: Collaborating with your multi-disciplinary team to improve palliative care In small groups, with a nominated moderator, you will be put into a breakout room to discuss this important topic with your fellow attendees. What does your service need to change to ensure a MDT collaboration? What does your bereavement support look like? How does this compare with other services? How does your service support perinatal care? How could you improve? |
10.45 | Screen break |
11.00 | Feedback from interactive session on: Collaborating with your multi-disciplinary team to improve palliative care Moderators will feedback to the whole group what has been discussed in the individual breakout rooms. |
11.10 | Connecting teams and utilising palliative care skills to provide community support to baby and family Working in partnership with specialist outreach and hospice at home services Maximising community nurses with in-reach support for hospital and hospice services Building a service to enable 24/7 care and improve family care at end of life in community settings Dr Sharon English, Consultant in Neonatal Medicine, Leeds Children’s Hospital, The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
11.40 | Question and answer session with Dr Sharon English |
11.50 | Interactive session: Exploring ethical boundaries, making difficult decisions and working holistically with families In small groups, with a nominated moderator, you will be put into a breakout room to discuss this important topic with your fellow attendees. Questions are: How does your service support staff when making difficult decisions? How could your service improve holistic working with families? What community services are available to your families to ensure continuing support? |
12.10 | Screen and lunch break |
12.50 | Feedback from interactive session: Exploring ethical boundaries, making difficult decisions and working holistically with families Moderators will go on screen to feedback what has been discussed and learnt in the individual breakout rooms. |
1.00 | Video Presentation - Parent experience: progressing neonatal palliative care and overcoming communication barriers between services and families Nadia Leake, Parent Experience Expert |
1.30 | Interactive session: How can collaborative working improve the teams and families mental health wellbeing? In small groups, with a nominated moderator, you will be put into a breakout room to discuss this important topic with your fellow attendees. Questions are: What mental health services are available to families? What does your service need to build on? How effective is your signposting to ensure that families are given the maximum support How can your service support a positive workplace to ensure staff wellbeing? |
1.50 | Screen break |
2.05 | Feedback from interactive session: How can collaborative working improve the teams and families mental health wellbeing? Moderators will go on screen to feedback what has been discussed and learnt in the individual breakout rooms. |
2.15 | Promoting and improving the quality of mental health interventions for neonatal palliative care Delivering an integrated service and early intervention approaches for care and recovery Transforming perinatal mental health and overcoming new implementation barriers Improving access to quality perinatal mental health care for parents and their families Dr Mark Barsoum, Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, Noreen Clarke, Perinatal Clinical Lead, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Tracey Williams, Perinatal Team Manager, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
2.45 | Ensuring a joined up care pathway across your hospital, community and hospice Improving discharge, reducing readmissions and enhancing care at home and in the hospice Overcoming the obstacles: maintaining reliable collaboration across the palliative care team Assessing the impact of positive working MDT: how can collaboration benefit neonatal palliative care patients? Alex Mancini, Pan London Lead Nurse for Neonatal Palliative Care, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and the True Colours Trust |
3.15 | Question and answer session with Dr Mark Barsoum, Noreen Clarke, Tracey Williams and Alex Mancini |
3.25 | Chair’s closing remarks |
3.30 | Close of conference |
This event has been researched and produced by Vanessa Pearce. If you are interested in speaking on the day, please contact Vanessa by calling 01732 897788 or by emailing her at vanessa.pearce@sbk-healthcare.co.uk
Fauzia Paize
Dr Mark Barsoum
Noreen Clarke
Tracey Williams
Alex Mancini
Dr Sharon English
Pricing Structure
This pricing structure applies across this conference and related events
- £299+VAT for one NHS or Public Sector place
- £249 + VAT (each) for two or three NHS or public sector places
- £599 + VAT one commercial organisation place
- Commercial companies are also invited to sponsor this day please contact sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk for further detail
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Reservations
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Travel
Travel is not included in the conference fee. It is the responsibility of each delegate to make their way to the conference venue in adequate time. The conference organisers are not liable for any delays or non-attendance resulting from delayed or suspended transportation.
Cancellations
A full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received in writing 28 days before the date of the event (less £90 administration charge). Notice of cancellation must be received in writing and submitted by contacting us here. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date, the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be provided. You are still entitled to conference documentation in the event of cancellation.
Substitutions & Name Changes
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Certification of Attendance
A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to each participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.
Fee
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Additional Documentation
If you are unable to attend or would like to pick up an additional set of documentation on the day, the event documentation is available for purchase at £89 per set.