About our conferences
Every year we hold a one-day virtual conference addressing some of the most important and topical issues for UK health and social care professionals with an interest in palliative and end of life care. Firstly, it provides an educational forum for our own nurses and clinicians. In addition, it offers our partners working in community and palliative care the valuable chance to learn and network.
We keep delegate rates as competitive as possible because we know your organisations have limited budgets for education. With a consistently high standard of speakers and a wide range of relevant topics for discussion, it’s grown in popularity. For example, our palliative care conference now attracts around 100 healthcare professionals from across the UK.
Take a look at our 2023 conference, who our speakers were and what topics we discussed.
Meet our speakers for 2024
We’ve announced three speakers for our 2024 conference with more to follow.
Sarah Klinger
Medical Director at Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care
Sarah has worked at Peace Hospice Care since 2013 and prior to this was a Specialist Palliative Medicine Specialist Registrar on the London Deanery Training Scheme. Sarah holds an MSc in Palliative Medicine and was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in 2017. She is responsible for the provision of specialist palliative care medical services to patients at Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, and is the Caldicott Guardian for the organisation with responsibility for the secure handling of clinical information.
Dr Sarah Cox, BSc MBBS FRCP MSc RCPathME
Lead Medical Examiner at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Honorary Consultant at Royal Hospital Chelsea
Sarah was appointed to a new consultant post at Royal Trinity Hospice and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London in 1998. She is an honorary consultant at Royal Hospital Chelsea (for the Chelsea Pensioners). She is Lead Medical Examiner at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Her clinical work is now focused in the acute hospital setting. She has a special interest in palliative care of non-malignant conditions including people living with HIV and patients on ICU. She has held leadership roles locally and regionally and is currently serving as President of the Association for Palliative Medicine of GB and Ireland.
Wendy Freeman
Care Home Educator and Clinical Facilitator
Wendy has worked for Isabel Hospice for over 33 years. During this time she has worked in various roles managing community services, day services as well as being a Nurse Specialist. Wendy now uses her knowledge and experience in her role as Education Specialist for care homes in East and North Herts. Wendy has a passion to ensure that staff are supported to provide good end of life care for their residents ensuring equitable and high standards of Palliative and End of life care and to offer support to relatives.
Lizzie Pickering
Speaker and Grief Investigator
Lizzie offers Grief Guidance to organisations and individuals, educating people about grief and helping them back to life and work following major loss, from bereavement, to diagnosis, divorce and workplace change. Her clients include hospitals and schools to advertising agencies and law firms. Since the death (in a hospice) of her eldest son Harry 24 years ago, Lizzie has become passionate about changing the landscape for people who are living with grief. Her firm belief is that if grief is faced and worked through gradually, if people are well supported, there is a rich seam of energy to be found in living with it and curating the rest of our lives well. Lizzie’s book 'When Grief Equals Love', was published in May 2023 and is available from book shops, Amazon and Audible.
More speakers to be announced soon.
When Wednesday 23 October, 9:30am - 16:30pm
Where Online
Who Healthcare professionals
"Very thought provoking, lots to reflect on, lots of learning to take forward in my practice, lots of themes and ideas to think about further"
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