Did you know... More than 100,000 people volunteer in hospices across the UK

Education and training

Help the Hospices recognises that there is a need to extend and develop high quality hospice education. So we seek to plug the gaps in the professional market by offering relevant, affordable and regionally diverse training opportunities.

Training

We offer:

accredited courses including Masters level courses
short courses, conferences and study days
e-Learning opportunities.

These cover a range of disciplines that are relevant to palliative care.

In 2007/2008 we organised 46 training events attracting 1,834 delegates, including our Help the Hospices conference. You can download programmes and presentations from some of our past events.

What's new

What else we offer

As well as supporting hospice care through our training programme, we offer a wide range of grant programmes.

We also have a comprehensive training calendar of forthcoming courses and conferences run by other training providers.

Supporting research

Help the Hospices believes that high quality evidence is essential to the delivery of care and to achievable outcomes. So we partnered with Cancer Experiences Collaborative (CECo) and held two meetings bringing together people from different hospices to discuss the current education needs of hospice staff in relation to research.

This information is now being collated and will be used to develop educational programmes for hospices.

Future research

Along with our research colleagues and chair in hospice studies at Lancaster University, we will be encouraging hospice-based research activity at every level.

Further information

If you have any suggestions for training events or would like to discuss any aspects of our work, please contact us.