Whilst the idea of providing a truly population based approach to palliative and end of life care is attractive, knowing how to do this is another matter. The publication of the Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care in April 2022 provides a thorough background to the need, basic concepts and theory, practice methods, population based approaches, research evidence and education and training. It is incredibly helpful to see the full picture of what public health palliative care means. However, working your way through a textbook and putting that into practice is not so easy. In order to cover the basics, Compassionate Communities UK has designed a course to help bring the subject to life.
This course is specifically designed for MDT clinicians in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Australia.
This course will be helpful to specialists in training and multidisciplinary team members alike.
The course covers the following areas:
1. Developing a theoretical basis of the history and practice of public health palliative care
2. Applying the principles of public health palliative care in clinical practice
3. Understanding the context of death, dying, loss and care giving as a social experience which has medical aspects
4. Understanding that death, dying, loss and care giving has positive outcomes in addition to sadness and loss.
5. Understanding that a population based approach gives a different perspective to service provision, particularly where access to services is unequal.
6. Being able to plan services which provide equity of access.
Who delivers the training?
Professor Allan Kellehear – Clinical Professor, University of Vermont, USA
Dr Julian Abel – Director, Compassionate Communities UK
Dr Libby Sallnow, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Camden, Islington ELiPSe and UCLH & HCA Palliative Care Service
Dr Joseph Sawyer, SpR Palliative Care and PhD candidate, UCLH
Dr Kerrie Noonan, Director, Death Literacy Institute, Australia
Register HERE or contact us to find out more on [email protected]
Session 1, 3 hours Thursday May 9th,
19.00 to 22.00 NZ ST
Session 2, 2 hours Thursday May 16th
19.00 to 22.00 NZ ST
Session 3, 90 minutes Thursday May 23rd
19.00 to 22.00 NZ ST
Session 4, 90 minutes Thursday May 30th
19.00 to 22.00 NZ ST
Session 5, 90 minutes Thursday June 6th
19.00 to 22.00 NZ ST
Session 6, 90 minutes Thursday June 13th
19.00 to 22.00 NZ ST
Session 7, 2 hours Thursday June 20th
19.00 to 22.00 NZ ST
The ECHO community of practice session will be held on a Thursday evening 20:00 to 21:00 once a month.