This conference will update delegates on the implications of the new Act and the implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards in your service.The conference includes a choice of streams in the afternoon focusing on:  NHS Hospitals Independent Healthcare including Care Homes and Hospices Assessments and Authorisations Best Interests Assessments This conference will enable you to: Network with colleagues who are working to move from DoLS to Liberty Protection Safeguards Reflect on national developments and understand the implications of the to Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 Improve the way you manage Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards in the interim Explore the context
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  This half day masterclass, facilitated by barrister Alex Ruck Keene, will look in detail at all aspects of deprivation of liberty at present, and give very practical advice as to the legal framework as it stands.  With LPS coming down the line in April 2022, the masterclass will also look at how to apply LPS thinking now so as to implement its core message: that deprivation of liberty is everyone’s business.With the delay to the implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards until April 2022, and with the pressures of COVID-19 continuing, all those concerned with delivering care and treatment
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Improving End of Life for people with Cardiovascular Disease & Heart Failure, Wednesday 2nd December 2020, Virtual  Chaired by Dr Ros Taylor MBE, Medical Director, Harlington Hospice and Michael Sobell Hospice, and former Clinical Director, Hospice UK, this virtual conference focuses on improving end of life care for people with Cardiovascular Disease and Heart Failure through a person centred approach. National updates and practical case studies will demonstrate how you can meet the end of life care needs for people with heart disease and will address the added difficulties of Covid-19. The conference will discuss starting difficult conversations: talking to
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Nurse/Non Medical Prescribing in End of Life Care, Friday 4th December 2020, Virtual  Chaired by Dr Barry Quinn, Senior Lecturer for Cancer and Palliative Care, Queen’s University Belfast, this important national virtual conference provides an essential update for current and aspiring nurse & non medical prescribers on prescribing at the end of life including the implications of Covid-19. It is widely recognised that pain and symptom control at the end of life is not always optimal, the development of nurse prescribing has a key role in improving pain and symptom control for patients at the end of life. The conference,
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Sobell Centre for Education and Research at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford. This course is specifically for HCPs working in supportive and palliative care settings; hospice, care home, respiratory, stroke, etc etc and NOT aimed at people who are trained in yoga and mindfulness – its more clinically focused & aims to support attendees to develop confidence in their non-pharma and relational skillset + self-care. Feedback from this course last year included 100% satisfaction with content & delivery and: As a result of learning undertaken today, I am more likely to….  Feel more prepared to give palliative care Open/honest about dying/death
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Interventional Approaches for Cancer-Related Pain & Acute Pain and Persistent Post Surgical Pain Two Day Virtual Conference We invite you to join our virtual two day event on Interventional and Acute Pain and Persistent Pain. The aim of day 1 is to define the role of interventional approaches in the treatment of cancer pain.The aim of day 2 is outline the latest treatments in acute pain. Start: 10:00, 10 December 2020 End: 16:00, 11 December 2020 Event: Conference The days will appeal to pain, anaesthetic and palliative care doctors and nurses, and other health care professionals involved in the treatment of cancer pain.   £120
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The Royal Marsden Opioid, Cannabinoid & Gabapentinoid Virtual Conference We have run the Royal Marsden Hospital Opioid Conference successfully for 13 years and continuously allowed it to change and adjust to the times, incorporating germane and contemporaneous developments in the field. Start: 13:00, 19 November 2020 End: 16:30, 20 November 2020 Price: £120.00 Event: Conference The last few months have been challenging for all and has changed our perception of normality. Therefore for this year we have decided to run our ‘Opioids, cannabinoids, and gabapentinoids’ study day in a virtual format. We will still be offering up to date discussions from
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The 12th Annual Royal Marsden Head & Neck Virtual Event: “Salvage treatment in head & neck cancer – when, why and how” Friday 6 November and Thursday 12 November 2020 This CPD accredited virtual event, taking place over the course of 2days, aims to build on the successes of the last eleven years and will explore the treatment options available for recurrent cancer in the head and neck setting. The day will consist of evidence-based lectures that will focus on salvage neck dissection, re-irradiation, palliative surgery and the complication of operating on irradiated tissues. Case-based discussion will be incorporated throughout
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We are pleased to announce that we are holding the 13th Annual Royal Marsden Breast Cancer Meeting on Friday 2nd October 2020. Start: 13:00, 02 October 2020 End: 17:15, 02 October 2020 Price: £60.00 Event: Conference This year we will run a virtual half-day “Hot Topics in Breast Cancer” meeting providing both an update on recent research, as well as discussing the challenges of management of breast cancer through and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular we will review recent advances in adjuvant treatment, together with changes to shorten the delivery of radiotherapy, and predictive tools to personalise decision making
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The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust This study day will provide a greater understanding of prostate cancer, its treatments and how to care for these patients in the primary care community services. Start: 09:00, 23 February 2021 End: 13:00, 23 February 2021 Price: £50.00 Event: Study day This virtual study day is aimed at all radiographers, nurses, doctors, GP’s, pharmacists and any other clinicians working in primary care/community services wanting to know more about prostate cancer and its treatments.  Book Online
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