Thinking Globally – Acting Locally: 11th Annual Conference – a hybrid event. Saturday 19 October 2024. In person at Sobell House Study Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LE Or via Zoom
Morning programme
09.30 hrs until 13.30 hrs BST (UTC + 1)
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| 0930 | PCW Annual General Meeting
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George Smerdon, Chair of Trustees
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| The Annual General Meeting is open to all who wish to attend either on
Zoom or in person
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| 10.00 | Conference Registration – tea/coffee available
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| 10.30 | Welcome and introduction
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George Smerdon, Chair of Trustees
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| 10.35 | Keynote speaker: Championing palliative care in universal health reforms
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Robert Yates, Political Health Economist and Honorary Associate Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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| 11.05 | Opportunity for Qs and As
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| 11.15 | The spark that lit the flame.
What has been achieved following PCW training
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Presentation from Sokoine Hospital Palliative Care Team in SE Tanzania: Faraja Kilewa, Midwife and Peter Masinde, Pharmacist
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| 11.35 | Refreshment break
Reminder: Audience please prepare questions/comments for Panel at 13.10
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| 11.50 | How do we evaluate the work PCW does? | Fiona Rawlinson, Trustee, PCW
Professor at Cardiff University and Programme Director for the Palliative Medicine for Health Care Professionals’ MSc and postgraduate palliative care short courses. Consultant in Palliative Medicine, City Hospital Community, Cardiff
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| 12.00 | Reaching minorities: introduction
Increasing access to address inequity
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Ruth Alderton, Trustee, PCW
Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Prospect Hospice Anu Savio, Nurse Consultant, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry, India
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| 12.15 | Training Community Health Volunteers for Palliative Care in Kenya
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Sally Hull, Chair of Trustees, Hospice Care Kenya UK |
| 12.35 | Mental health challenges in palliative care
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Dr Seema Rao, Director of Education & Research, Bangalore Hospice Trust and Head, Karunashraya Institute for Palliative Care Education and Research
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| 12.50 | The Global Palliative Nursing Network (GPNN) and Beacons of Care Projects
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Marie Cooper, Senior Nurse Advisor, Centre for Awareness and Response to End of Life, St Christopher’s Hospice, London
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| 13.10 | Audience participation with panel of speakers:
Robert Yates, Sally Hull, Seema Rao, Marie Cooper and George Smerdon Your opportunity to raise questions and reflections on the conference presentations and /or challenges and difficulties you have experienced and how they have been resolved. Participants to send in questions by email before the conference or place in chat box during the morning.
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| 13.30 | Conference ends on Zoom
Lunch will be provided for delegates at Sobell House |
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There will be a meeting in the afternoon of PCW Trustees and Associates. In-house delegates are warmly invited to stay.
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