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Eligible organisations and staff
You must be:
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living and working in one of the commonwealth resource poor countries named in the eligible country list
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working for an organisation that will directly benefit from a palliative care course one of their employees undertakes
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clinicial staff, ie nurses, doctors or clinical officers.
Bursaries are available to attend one of the following courses or a particular year of multi-year courses.
Eligible courses
Organisation
|
Course
|
|
Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network |
Graduate
certificate/ APHN diploma in palliative care |
|
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Bangladesh |
Basic
certificate course in palliative nursing/medicine |
|
CanSupport,
Delhi |
Foundation
course in palliative care
|
|
Hospice
Africa Uganda |
Diploma/BSc in palliative care
Health professionals course in palliative
care
Palliative care initiators
course
|
|
Institute of Palliative
Medicine, Calicut |
National
fellowship programme in palliative medicine |
|
Nairobi Hospice/Oxford Brookes
University |
Diploma
(HE) in palliative care |
|
Pain and Palliative Care Society, Calicut |
Basic certificate course in palliative nursing/medicine |
|
University of Cape Town, South Africa |
Diploma/MPhil
in palliative care |
Priority
is given to applications to attend one of the courses above. If you
wish to apply for a bursary to attend a different course, please contact us before making an application. Decisions regarding suitability will be taken on a
case by case basis.
Eligible costs
Bursaries can be used to pay for:
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course fees (we expect these to form the major part of your application)
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travel costs, up to a maximum of £500 per course
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accommodation costs.
Applications which are:
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for less than £100
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from individuals working in the UK
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for courses, or
a particular year of a multi-year course, that have already started at the date of application (it takes up to six weeks from receipt of your application to let you know if you have been awarded a bursary)
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from individuals who are not clinically qualified
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for costs towards research funding.
Next steps
The criteria above will let you know if you and the course you want to study are eligible to apply for a bursary.
If you are going to apply, you make sure that your application is as strong as possible by looking at the criteria that will be used to assess your application.
