Hospice and palliative care services and health professionals can also find local, national and regional education and training opportunities by contacting their national, regional and pan-national palliative care associations.
Search for courses and conferences
Our online training database includes courses and conferences in the UK. You can search this by keyword (for example masters, online, lymphoedema) to find appropriate resources.
Online training
Help the Hospices' free online course Current Learning in Palliative Care (CLIP) has 15-minute online tutorials on palliative care.
CancerNursing.org's Introduction to palliative care nursing is a free online course that offers a general introduction to palliative care nursing. It includes self-assessment exercises.
Palliative Care Toolkit
Published by Help the Hospices, this guide is practical manual to equip, empower and encourage health workers in resource-limited settings to integrate palliative care into their work and their communities.
You can download a copy of the Palliative Care Toolkit and its individual chapters and tools for free. If you are interested in distributing the Toolkit in your region or country, please contact us.
Training for trainers
The EPEC Project (Education in Palliative and End-of-life Care) is a train-the-trainer programme covering palliative and end of life care. It offers access to educational materials, distance learning and information on conferences.
Report
The European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC) has produced A Guide for the Development of Palliative Nurse Education in Europe. This document aims to create clinically relevant and nurse-focused education, particularly where this area is in its infancy. It is based on previous work that that has been undertaken in European countries, including Switzerland, Ireland, Spain and Germany.
The report's authors encourage those responsible for education and training, particularly within each national association, to take and/or adapt this document locally, in their respective countries.
You can download the report from the EAPC website (a French version is also available).
Further information
Find out more information on the our UK education and training and international education and training activities.
