National End of Life and Bereavement Care Conference
Date: 17 May 2013 to 17 May 2013
Location: St Andrews, Birmingham City Football Ground, Birmingham, B9 4RL
Start: 10am
Finish: 4.30pm
As part of Dying Matters Awareness week, this 4th National Conference aims to highlight the importance of preparation by healthcare professionals and individuals to ensure good end of life and bereavement care, ensuring that individual wishes and needs are recognised and respected.
This important and topical day aims to raise public and health care awareness and to debate key issues and considerations around end of life and bereavement care, from nurse education in compassionate care to why wills, funeral wishes and organ donation matter, and what this means for individuals and organisations.
Chair - Lord Philip Hunt, Kings Heath & Chairman HEFT
Speakers include:
- Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for the NHS
- Eve Richardson, Chief Executive, National Council for Palliative Care & Dying Matters Coalition
- Mandie Sunderland, Chief Nurse Heart of England NHS FT
- Alan Slater, Chief Executive, National Association of Funeral Directors - ‘My Funeral Wishes’
The Conference will include sessions on:
- End of life care in the community
- Nurse education in end of life care
- Caring for people with learning difficulties - Six Lives
- Why Organ Donation Matters
The conference fee is £75, which must be paid in advance to ensure admittance to the conference. Due to demand, book your place early to avoid disappointment.
For more information, please visit http://shop.dyingmatters.org/public/event/events.aspx. Alternatively, you can contact Phillipa Casbon on 020 7697 1520 or by email at p.casbon@ncpc.org.uk.