About this event

  • Date and time Tue 18 Feb 2025 from 9:30am to 12:30pm
  • Location Online
  • Organised by Palliative Care

Join us as we present master’s level palliative care research and quality improvement projects, inspiring you to find your research interests and develop your projects. This event will benefit trainees, junior doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals alongside senior clinicians who want to learn more about how to get involved with research.

With an increasingly ageing and multi-morbid population, research in the field of palliative care is vital to ensure the experience of patients with life-limiting conditions is improved. Attitudes to research and inclusion of patients with life-limiting conditions are changing and patients and communities are increasingly understood as partners in developing research questions and projects. There has never been a more exciting and challenging time to build research into your career.

By attending, you will

  • Develop an understanding of research methodologies and career opportunities in academic palliative care. 
  • Identify key opportunities and challenges for research in palliative care.
  • Learn about current research topics in palliative care.

This meeting aims to inspire and stimulate junior doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals about the role of research in palliative care. Participants will also have the opportunity to network with their peers, academics, and clinicians.

The Palliative Care Section George Adams Prize and Research Prize will also be presented and awarded at this meeting. 

Agenda

View the programme 18 February 2025

Welcome and introduction

Sara Robbins, President, Palliative Care Section, Royal Society of Medicine  

Key speaker presentation

Dr Felicity Dewhurst, NIHR Advanced Fellow, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Newcastle University and St Oswald's Hospice 

Relieving unbearable suffering: Assessing the perceived role and relationship of swiss palliative care nurses to assisted suicide in the german-speaking regions of Switzerland

Ann Kim Coveri

Using the patient dignity question in a specialist palliative care unit: Assessing the impact on staff

Eleanor Gaffney

Comfort break

Key speaker presentation

Dr Sarah Combes, NIHR Senior Research Leader, Nursing and Midwifery, St Christopher's Hospice

The role of palliative care in humanitarian crisis: A systematic review

Haytham Abusenjar

The availability of breastfeeding and lactation support for families whose children are receiving palliative care in the United Kingdom

Laura Thomas

Understanding and developing a community service to support the management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia

Maisy Grovestock 

Comfort break

2050

Shirin Sadat Massroor

Announcement of prize winners

Dr Sara Robbins   

Closing remarks
Close of meeting

Location

Online

Disclaimer: All views expressed in this webinar are of the speakers themselves and not of the RSM.

Registration for this webinar will close 1 hour prior to the start time. You will receive the webinar link 1 hour before the meeting. Late registrations will not be accepted.
 
Webinar recordings will be available for registered delegates up to 60 days after the live webinar, via Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the webinar takes place.
 
This webinar will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.
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