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Programme presentations

Presentations from the Help the Hospices 2009 conference. Use the box below to search for a presentation, or scroll down to browse day by day. Select the title of a presentation to view full details, and where available, download the slides as a PDF.

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Day one

Time	Title	Presenter / authors
11.30am	Welcome	David Praill, Help the Hospices
11.40am	Opening plenary	Professor Paul Hunt, School of Law, Essex University; UN Special Rapporteur on the right to highest attainable standard of health (2002 to 2008); Barbara Monroe, St Christopher's Hospice
1pm	Writing for publication	Helen Scott, End of Life Care Journal
1pm	How to change your practice because of what you read in a research paper: 10 easy steps	Professor Sheila Payne, Lancaster University
1pm	Moving forward with opioid constipation	Dr Phil Larkin, University College Dublin; John Canham, London Bridge Hospices
2.10pm	Spheres of influence/ Practice development in a hospice setting	Jo Fernandes, Hospice of St Francis
2.10pm	Review of the characteristics and outcomes of calls made to an out-of-hours palliative care team	Paula Cook, Princess Alice Hospice
2.10pm	Driving the way forward	Cath Baldry, Queenscourt Hospice
2.10pm	Provision for patients to receive copies of their clinical letters from community palliative care nurse specialists	Jo Carby, Wigan and Leigh Hospice
2.10pm	Commissioning and contracting hospice care	Claire Whittington, Comissioning and System Management Directorate, Department of Health; Michael Kerin, St Joseph's Hospice, Hackney; Sarah-Jane Mills, St Barnabas Hospice Trust, Lincolnshire
2.10pm	Integrated approaches to fundraising	Robert Breakwell, Iain Rennie Hospice; Andy Smith, Fair Havens Hospice
2.10pm	'Yes, we can change practice'	Margaret Borrell and Tracey Brailsford, Ashgate Hospice; Andrew Thomson, National Audit Tools Group, Help the Hospices
2.10pm	End of life decisions in UK medical practice	Dr Clive Seale, University of London.
2.10pm	Narrative and stories in palliative care	Phil Cotterell, University of Southampton; Professor Karen Forbes, University of Bristol; Patsy Way, The Candle Project
2.10pm	Transition coordinators one year on: the reality. A Northern Ireland perspective; a 'champions network'; using a care pathway approach	Hilary Maguire, Northern Ireland Children's Hospice; Kay Carpenter and Trudy Davies, ACT Transition Coordinators
4.25pm	Plenary: the economic outlook for 2010	Trevor Williams, Chief Economist, Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets

Day two

Time	Title	Presenter / authors
9am	Plenary: The challenge of caring for people in late old age	Dr Jo Hockley, St Christopher's Hospice
10.45am	A DVD to support family carers assisting with providing palliative care	Allan Peters, Relative Care
10.45am	Why do family carers accept or decline support services?	Dr Terri O'Brien, Lancaster University
10.45am	The markers of good quality palliative care: a national survey of UK general practices	Philippa Hughes, University of Sheffield
10.45am	Governance in changing times: a study of hospice trustees in the United Kingdom	Dr Mary Turner, Lancaster University
10.45am	The Hospice Foresight project: responding to change and planning for the future	Sarah Coombes, NCVO; Shaun O'Leary, St Catherine's Hospice, Crawley
10.45am	Strategic planning during a recession	Barbara Gale, St Nicholas Hospice Care; Peter Holliday, St Giles Hospice.
10.45am	How accountable is your accountable officer?	Gillian Arr Jones, Care Quality Commission; Andrew Thomson, National Audit Tools Group, Help the Hospices; Dr Pauline Flanagan, Douglas Macmillan Hospice
10.45am	Research briefing: family care givers	Dr Gunn Grande, University of Manchester
10.45am	The views of people with learning disabilities on end-of-life care provision	Dr Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, St George's Hospital, University of London; Noelle Blackman, Respond
10.45am	Volunteering: does our future depend on it?	Steven Howlett. Roehampton University; Ros Scott, Childrens Hospice Association Scotland; Michaela Forster, Swiss Community Palliative Care Group
10.45am	What is the 'matter' in life before death? Art therapy's influence	Gill Thomas, Creative Response and Petra van der Zande, Creative Response; Michele Wood, Marie Curie Hospice, Hampstead
12:20-13:00	Poster discussion session
12.30pm	Prepare - don't panic! How to manage the media in a crisis (repeated 26 November)	Katie Brewin, Help the Hospices; Giles Wright, St Clare's Hospice
1.45pm	Plenary: International perspectives	Prof. Dr Lukas Radbruch, Aachen University; President of the European Association of Palliative Care; Revd Dr Michael Wright, International Observatory on End of Life Care, University of Lancaster
2.45pm	Learning disabilities end of life project	Helen Cross, Trinity Hospice, London
2.45pm	Breaking down the barriers for minority ethnic populations	Barbara Love, Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice, Glasgow
2.45pm	So what about us? User views on provision for young adults	Ros Scott, Children's Hospice Association Scotland
2.45pm	Realising good governance	John Bullivant, Good Governance Institute; Keith Gay, Hospice of St Francis
2.45pm	Commissioning a Hospice at Home service: a collaborative approach	Kay Greene, St Giles Hospice; Sue Varvel, Iain Rennie Hospice at Home
2.45pm	Reflections on and responses to transition	Wendy Dodds, Haven Hospice; Mike Keel, Pasque Hospice; Tracie Rennie, East Anglia Children's Hospice
2.45pm	Strengthening the foundations: reassessing the fundamentals of good spiritual care	Revd Tom Gordon, President of the Association of Hospice and Palliative Care Chaplains
2.45pm	Doctors role in the end of life care strategy and interventions in the community	Dr Bill Noble, Sheffield University; Dr Eileen Palmer, Hospice at Home West Cumbria
2.45pm	Engaging with hospices internationally	Dr Gillian Chowns, Southampton University; Avril Jackson, Help the Hospices; Michelle McGannan, Marie Curie Cancer Care; Wayne de Leew, Dorothy House Hospice

Day 3

Time	Title	Presenter / authors
8.30am	Development of guidelines for primary prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism in palliative patients with malignancy within the Pan Birmingham Cancer Network	Michelle Aslett, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Solihull Care Trust and Compton Hospice
8.30am	The impact of care home culture on the way in which qualified nurses put palliative care education into practice	Lynne Partington, St Luke's Cheshire Hospice
8.30am	The management of constipation in palliative care: the St Catherine's Hospice approach	Raymond Bunn, Kamson's Pharmacy and St Catherine's Hospice, Crawley
8.30am	'Lets talk about sex': practical response to care dilemmas	Revd Peter Wells, Brighton and Sussex University Hospital NHS Trust; Corrine Knoppenol, Demelza Hospice
8.30am	Food and nutrition in palliative care: a consensus statement	Dr Eleni Tsiompanou, Princess Alice Hospice; Dr Jane Hopkinson, Southampton University; Caroline Lecko, National Patient Safety Agency
8.30am	Leadership - perspectives from students on the MA in hospice leadership	Barbara Gale, St Nicholas' Hospice Care; Linda Hewitt, Hospice at Home West Cumbria; Steve Statham, St Luke's Hospice, Plymouth
8.30am	Service development: experiences of taking the 'Guidance for bereavement needs assessment' into practice	Dr Linda Machin, Keele University; Nikki Archer, St Giles Hospice; David Rushton, St Nicholas Hospice Care; Una Smale, Highland Hospice
8.30am	The cloud of unknowing: working creatively with families facing the uncertainty of chronic or terminal illness	Dr Gillian Chowns, University of Southamptom; Liz Gale, Trinity Hospice; Hilary Wilson, Ipswich Hospital's Trust
10.30am	Beyond recovery: chaplains working with people navigating (redundant) hope and no hope	Revd Dr Steve Nolan, Princess Alice Hospice
10.30am	Developing a facilitated self-help psychological therapy for palliative care patients	John Galfin, University of Exeter
10.30am	Psychosocial skills in palliative care	John Lansdell, St Catherine's Hospice, Crawley
10.30am	Establishing a network of research active hospices	Professor Mike Bennett, Lancaster University
10.30am	Shaping new services: end of life care for those with dementia; addressing ethnic diversity and end of life; prisoners experience of palliative care	Siobhan Horton, St Luke's Hospice, Cheshire; Dr Heather Richardson, St Joseph's Hospice, Hackney; Dr Louise Forman, Royal Preston Hospital
10.30am	Legacies - where do they come from?	Richard Radcliffe, Smee and Ford; Gary Hawkes, Farleigh Hospice
10.30am	'Audit is infectious'	Sarah Riches, St Giles Hospice; Andrew Thomson, National Audit Tools Group, Help the Hospices; Rick Catlin, Aintree Hospital
10.30am	Research briefing: palliative care education	Professor Karen Forbes, University of Bristol
10.30am	Organisational challenges for today and tomorrow in delivering bereavement care	Nikki Archer, St Giles Hospice; Sharon Cornford, St Joseph's Hospice, Hackney; Una Smale, Highland Hospice
10.30am	Dying matters Let's talk about it	Eve Richardson and Hilary Fisher, National Council for Palliative Care; Vicky Morrey, Prospect Hospice, Swindon
12.15pm	Plenary: With, not for, people. The future of hospice care	Charles Leadbeater
1.45pm	Prepare - don't panic! How to manage the media in a crisis (repeated from 25 November)	Katie Brewin, Help the Hospices; Giles Wright, St Clare's Hospice
1.45pm	The NICE way to review evidence in supportive and palliative care	Professor Sam Ahmedzai, NHS Evidence - supportive and palliative care speciallist collection