Welcome to our July newsletter.
In this month’s newsletter, we are delighted to be able to share our Annual Review for 2023. The compilation of this review gives us an opportunity to reflect on all the activity and progress over the past year across our key work areas; Policy and Engagement, Research, Education and Practice. Read below for a number of the highlights from the review and access to the full document.
It is fitting to follow that with the publication of the AIIHPC Strategic Plan 2024-2028 which focuses on the guiding the future development of the Institute. For further information on the development of the plan and to read the full document, see below.
We recently held the End of Life Survey Workshop, in collaboration with the HSE National Office for Palliative Care and were so encouraged to see so many of you in attendance to discuss the key findings for the hospice and specialist palliative care sector and how organisations can work collaboratively on a range of quality improvement initiatives. See below for further information and photos from the event.
We were delighted to host the All Ireland Research Active Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Provider Event in June with over 30 organisations participating on the day. See below for more information including videos and slides from the event. We also recently welcomed Marian Lovett, who has joined the Institute as a Project Manager for Research Impact within the Research team.
Palliative Care Week 2024 is set to take place from 8 - 14 September. Please support us in sharing awareness of palliative care, some of the ways you can get involved are detailed below. I would like to share the date for the Compassionate Communities Palliative and End of Life Care Conference which will take place at the beginning of Palliative Care Week on Monday, 9 September in Newry, Co. Down. More information on this event will be shared shortly.
Finally, don’t forget to check out our ‘News from Members, Funders and Stakeholders’ and ‘Upcoming Events & Conferences’ sections below and please check the AIIHPC website for all activities and events here.
Karen Charnley, CEO.
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AIIHPC has published its Annual Review 2023 which is now available to view here.
The report gives us an important opportunity to share the activity and progress made over the past year across Research, Education and Practice, Policy and Engagement. It also allows us to reflect upon our achievements in those core areas and consider priorities as we move forward in 2024.
2023 saw the 10th anniversary of the annual Palliative Care Week campaign, which took place in September and was a resounding success thanks to all our wonderful collaborators. It is of utmost importance to us that the campaign raises public awareness and we work to enhance our reach each year, so that as many people as possible know of the benefits of palliative care.
A number of key achievements within the 2023 included :
- Supporting the work of leading researchers in the Palliative Care Research Network with the welcome of 7 new members to the network, bringing the total membership to 62. 15 new members joined the Early Career Researcher Forum bringing total membership to 234. In addition, hosted 12th Annual Palliative Care Research Network (PCRN) Symposium on ‘Implementation of research for evidence-based practice’ and launched 3 palliative care research special interest groups
- Continued engagement with Ministers and senior colleagues in Departments of Health in both jurisdictions, focusing on strategic opportunities for AIIHPC and members to support the delivery of palliative care
- An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Peter May, Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health NI launched Palliative Care Week. Peter May also opened the 3rd International Research Seminar in Belfast
- 5 Communities of Practice for Specialist Palliative Care were supported including the launch of 3 further Communities
- Hosted the 3rd International Research Seminar in Belfast, in partnership with the EAPC Reference Group on Public Health and Palliative Care
- 6 AIIHPC Caru Webinars took place with participants from 406 nursing homes attending one or more webinars. In addition, four Caru Project ECHO virtual learning networks were supported by the Institute in collaboration with member organisations in the Republic of Ireland
- Continued to support meaningful involvement of people with a life-limiting illness/palliative care needs, their families, carers and the public through Voices4Care, AIIHPC’s volunteer group with 47 members at year end and 67 engagement opportunities were circulated to members
- Commenced development of the AIIHPC Strategic Plan 2024-2028
I am grateful for the ongoing commitment of the AIIHPC’s team in delivering on our work programme again this year. I would also like to acknowledge and thank Mr Fintan Fagan, Chair of AIIHPC’s Board and Council of Members, AIIHPC’s Board members, AIIHPC’s twenty-seven member organisations and their representatives and our funders which include the HSE, Public health Agency, Health Research Board and the Health and Social Care R&D Division, Public Health Agency for their ongoing support.
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Having completed a Strategic Review process in 2021, AIIHPC proceeded with Phase 2 which involved the development of a longer term 5-year Strategic Plan covering the period 2024-2028. As part of the processing of developing the plan, Management Consultant Pat Quinlan consulted with a range of key stakeholders including the Institute Board, Council of Members, a number of Voices4Care members and the Institute team with surveys and face to face meetings. The Strategic Plan was approved by the AIIHPC Board and AIIHPC Council of Members.
The Strategic Plan sets out a clear vision for how the Institute can support its member organisations to deliver on the vision that “excellent palliative care is available for everyone at the right time and place across the island of Ireland”. The plan is of immense value in terms of guiding the future development of the Institute.
To read the plan, click here.
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‘You, Me and Palliative Care’
The dates of this year’s Palliative Care Week are Sunday 8 September until Saturday 14 September. We are progressing with our plans for Palliative Care Week 2024.
There are many ways to get involved in the campaign and help us to raise public awareness of palliative care, such as:
Events – It would be highly valuable to have events across the island of Ireland during Palliative Care Week targeted at the public and/or health and social care professionals. The events could range from having open events within services to highlight the benefits of palliative care or an event could focus on a particular aspect(s) of palliative care, i.e. clinical updates, presentations on new initiatives within your work settings.
Examples of events/activities which have taken place during previous campaign’s include:
- Stands in workplaces, raising awareness of palliative care services/celebrating all who work in palliative care in your workplace
- Stands in public areas, such as shopping centres to raise awareness of services/ inform the public about palliative care
- Clinical updates- i.e. refresher training on the use of syringe drivers/ symptom management updates, etc.
- A session for health and social care professionals on their own health and wellbeing- with one or more speakers
- Open days / sessions within hospice to encourage the community to visit the hospice with potentially talks by professionals
- A half or full day event focusing on the various roles within palliative care - could include volunteers/ community groups.
Media Spokespeople - Having spokespeople to participate in media interviews is a vital element of the week. The campaign aims to reach a large audience through online, print and broadcast media. The campaign needs a number of professionals who are willing to speak about the benefits of palliative care in both national and local media. Contact the Institute if you and or any member/s of your team would be willing to participate in media interviews during the week?
Personal stories – At the heart of the campaign each year are the personal stories of people who have benefitted from palliative care services and/or their carers or family members. Contact the Institute if you have patients and or families who would be willing to share their experiences in the media.
To share plans or get involved in any way, please contact:
Paula Pinto, Programme Manager – Policy and Engagement - ppinto@aiihpc.org
Yvonne McCahill, Communications Manager ymccahill@aiihpc.org
Keep an eye on our campaign page on The Palliative Hub at this link.
Save the Date!
The Compassionate Communities Palliative and End of Life Care Conference will take place at the start of Palliative Care Week on Monday, 9 September in Newry, Co. Down. This event is hosted by AIIHPC, in collaboration with the Irish Hospice Foundation and Foyle Hospice. The event is funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs Shared Island Civic Society Fund. Full programme details will be shared shortly. This is a public event and registration will open shortly.
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AIIHPC is working to conduct an extensive update of The Palliative Hub - Children and Young People website (https://childrenspalliativehub.com) from design and layout, to content and resources to ensure audience needs are met.
The website was originally designed to provide a trusted source of information for advice, guidance and resources with links to further sources of support including condition support organisations and health services. The website was designed to be a portal to support people with finding the information they need, in collaboration with health care professionals and support organisations.
We invite you to complete our short survey to give your input and feedback on our current site. The survey is open to:
- Parents/ Guardians and family members of children and young people with life-limiting conditions / palliative care needs
- Young people with life limiting conditions / palliative care needs
- All Health and Social Care Professionals
The survey should take no longer than 10 minutes and will help inform the future of our website that is invaluable to so many families.
Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZQL2RD8.
If you have queries, contact Debbie Wilkinson, Programme Manager - Technology & Innovation, email: dwilkinson@aiihpc.org.
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AIIHPC was delighted to host the All Ireland Research Active Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Provider event in the Ashling Hotel on 12 June 2024. There were 45 participants from over 30 different organisations from the island of Ireland and internationally, including representatives from Hospices and Specialist Care Providers, members of the Palliative Care Research Network (PCRN) and Early Career Researcher Forum (ECRF), health and social care professionals, policymakers, charity representatives, funders, and Voices4Care members. The focus of the day was on sharing the results of an All Ireland Research Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Provider Survey to encourage discussion of the opportunities, challenges and way forward for further developing research in adult and children’s hospices and specialist palliative care services on the island of Ireland in line with policies and priorities. The event was supported by the Health Research Board, the Health and Social Care R&D Division, Public Health Agency and the HSE and was approved for CPD by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.
Following this event, AIIHPC will be developing a position paper on this topic in consultation with key stakeholders and using input from the Open Session on the day. For event resources including programme, video recordings and presentation slides please see here.
We would like to thank all our speakers, those that took part in the panel discussions and everyone who participated in the open session. We would also like to thank the organising committee and facilitators on the day that included Dr Jackie Boylan, Dr Sheena Geoghegan and Prof Kevin Brazil, as well as AIIHPC colleagues.
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Marian Lovett has recently joined the research team as a project manager to support research impact on a temporary basis with AIIHPC. In her role she will be supporting researchers with the promotion and impact of research and supporting the research special interest groups. She is keen to hear from any members who would be interested in promoting their research with research study webpages, research blogs, or podcasts on AIIHPC’s Palliative Hub Professional and can be contacted by email at mlovett@aiihpc.org.
Marian has worked as a lecturer in third level education, consultancy and collaborative practice, arts management, and as a writer and arts editor. She has held leadership roles in the arts and developed collaborations and partnerships in the public and private sectors and innovative fundraising and development initiatives. She recently received a postgraduate award in Health Care and Innovation from TCD in 2023.
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This blog article was written by Associate Professor Aileen Collier, Associate Professor in Palliative Care and Aged Nursing, Flinders University and Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) with contributions from Mark Hazelwood and Rebecca Patterson, Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care.
“At the end of 2023, I attended the 3rd International Seminar on Public Health Research in Palliative Care, organised in Belfast in partnership with All-Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care (AIIHPC) and EAPC Reference Group on Public Health and Palliative Care. The conference theme was ‘A Human Rights based approach to Palliative Care: Towards Solutions for Public Health Palliative Care’. I enjoyed this conference more than any other for some time. The relatively small number of participants, along with Irish hospitality, made for great conversations and connections; some of these relationships I’m sure will endure across time and space.
I have a tendency to think about public health palliative care as something ‘out there’. However, I was challenged to think about PHPC within my own communities. One of the highlight presentations was Prof Joachim Cohen, who made a strong case for the compassionate university. Prof Cohen defined the compassionate university as one “where serious illness, dying, caregiving and grief is everyone’s business,” Aileen said. Read the full article- Unpacking Public Health Palliative Care.
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National End of Life Care Survey Workshop for Hospices and Specialist Palliative Care Services
 
AIIHPC, in collaboration with the HSE National Clinical Programme for Palliative Care and Maurice Dillon, National Lead for Palliative Care, Operations Planning, HSE hosted the End of Life Care Survey Workshop for Hospices and Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) Services in the Ashling Hotel on the 20 June 2024.
The event was targeted at members of the National Palliative Care Quality Assurance & Improvement (QA+I) Enablement Committee (RoI) and health and social care professionals working within SPC providers with a strong interest in quality improvement, 50 people attended.
The programme included inputs from Dr Feargal Twomey, National Clinical Lead for Palliative Care; Maurice Dillon, National Lead for Palliative Care, HSE; Hélène Tobin, Patient Safety User Experience Unit, HSE; Winifred Ryan, National Healthcare Communication Programme; A/Prof Carla O’Neill, University College Dublin and Orla Keegan, Irish Hospice Foundation.
The event provided an opportunity to consider and discuss the key themes contained within the hospice’s Quality Improvement Plans which were included in the HSE response to the findings of the National End of Life Survey 2023 (link). The event also provided opportunities for sharing good practice and resources within the palliative care community. It is envisaged that the findings from the event will inform the future work programme for the National Palliative Care Quality Assurance & Improvement (QA+I) Enablement Committee, which AIIHPC supports.
Palliative Care, End-of-Life and Bereavement Education Database
The ‘Database of Palliative care, End-of-life, and Bereavement courses’ serves as a comprehensive resource designed to improve awareness and facilitate access to palliative care education in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The database sits within the wider Qualifax system and it includes courses of offer across the island of Ireland including online courses, one day short courses through to post graduate programmes.
To search for a Palliative Care course on the Qualifax Database, a user should click on this link Courses Search | Qualifax.
Following this, the search can be further refined by course provider, course type, attendance options, geographical location and level. The database includes courses from 60 providers.
Further information on the database can be found on the AIIHPC website Database – AIIHPC.
If you’re an education provider and offer programs and courses and you wish to have your offerings included in our database, please contact info@aiihpc.org.
Update on Caru and Project Echo Networks
Caru is a free quality improvement programme and is available to all nursing home staff across the Republic of Ireland. For more information, visit: www.caru.ie.
Caru AIIHPC Webinars
The next Caru Webinar will take place during Palliative Care Week 2024. Diary note: Thursday, 12 Sept, 3.00-4.00pm. Recordings of all past Caru webinars are available on the Caru Learning Hub area of the Palliative Hub Learning Platform.
Caru AIIHPC Project ECHO Nursing Home Knowledge Networks
Project ECHO learning and support networks continue with their learning sessions in HSE areas CHO2, CHO3, CHO6, CHO7 and CHO9. Membership of each ECHO network remains open to staff from local public and private nursing homes. Project ECHO networks will be established in CHO1, CHO4, CHO5 and CHO8 later this year. Recruitment for the new networks will begin this month.
Enquiries about Caru AIIHPC Programme activities should be addressed to Miriam Ahern, Programme Manager – Nursing Home Education and Project ECHO mahern@aiihpc.org.
Caru Workshops Have Commenced for 2024
Caru Workshops continue to take place across the country. The Caru Programme hopes to see over 200+ nursing home staff attending these workshops to be trained as Caru Leads. Caru Workshops are open to any designation of staff working in the nursing home sector. To register your interest in Caru Workshops please contact the Regional Lead for your CHO area.
Caru National Virtual Network Online-The Journey of Life and Loss for Residents in Nursing Homes 10 July 2024 2.30 - 4,00pm
Supporting residents with grief and loss as they live and die in nursing homes can be difficult for staff. Bereavement and loss are common experiences for older adults and can have a pervasive impact on health and well-being. The Journey of Life and Loss for Residents in Nursing Homes will consider losses from the time a person chooses to live in a nursing home up to their death and the death of fellow residents. The lived experience from staff in a nursing home will be presented along with the role of arts and creativity in supporting grief and loss in residential care settings.
This online network is open to all nursing home staff, including HCAs, Nurses, DONs/ADONs, catering, household, pastoral care, chaplaincy, admin, reception, GP’s, social workers, physiotherapist, and OT. Accreditation: 1.5 CEU’s (NMBI). This is a free online network, but booking is required. Register for this National Virtual Network here. This event will take place on Zoom. The link to join will be sent via email the week of the event.
Enquiries about Caru Workshops and Networks should be addressed to Anne Marie Murphy, Interim Caru National Programme Manager annemarie.murphy@hospicefoundation.ie.
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13th Annual PCRN Symposium 14 November, Belfast – Save the Date and Abstract Call
Please save the date for this year’s PCRN Symposium on 14 November in the Long Gallery, Stormont, Belfast. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Psychological, Spiritual and Social Care in Palliative Care.'
We would welcome abstract submissions from PCRN and ECRF members related to this year’s theme and are hoping to see lots of familiar names, but also lots of new ones also in the mix! To submit an abstract please use link. The deadline for submissions is 27 August 2024.
Registration for the symposium will be available soon, please note that if your abstract is accepted for presentation, you will be required to register for the event.
Decision Making for People with Advanced Illness in Palliative Care – Funded PhDs
We are delighted to announce that Dr Geraldine Foley, PCRN member and Vice Chair of the PCRN Strategic Scientific Committee has been successful as the Principal Investigator for four full-time PhD studentships funded by an interdisciplinary Trinity Research Doctorate Group-based Award. The team of co-primary investigators includes PCRN members Dr Cathal Cadogan and Dr Emer Guinan, with colleagues Dr Andrea Mulligan, Prof Linda Hogan, Prof Andrew Davies and Prof Cathal Walsh from Trinity College Dublin.
The four successful applicants will be recruited on four distinct projects within a programme focused on Decision-Making for People with Advanced Illness in Palliative Care. The programme investigates key evolving challenges in palliative care including clinical decision-making in the management of symptoms for patients, and patient-family caregiver relations in decision-making for patient care. The programme also researches legislative and ethical aspects of shared decision-making for people with advanced illness in palliative care.
Each of the PhD studentships will be 4 years in duration. Funding for each of the successful PhD applicants comprises an annual stipend of €25,000 with full exemption of tuition/academic fees (EU and non-EU). To find out more and how to apply see link here. Closing date for applications is 26 July 2024. For enquiries about the programme please contact Dr Geraldine Foley by email at foleyg3@tcd.ie.
PCRN Members in the News
Congratulations to the University College Cork Dementia Palliative Care Research Team who won UCC Research Team of the Year. Led by Prof Nicola Cornally, PCRN member, and including Prof Suzanne Timmons, the team works across the School of Nursing & Midwifery, School of Medicine, Centre for Gerontology & Rehabilitation, Department of General Practice, Cork University Business School, South West Hospital Group, and St. Luke's Nursing Home.
Professor Donna Fitzsimons (pictured below), who is Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast, was awarded the OBE for services to healthcare and education in the honours list. On the Friday of the same week she was in Poland where she was presented by the European Society of Cardiology Nursing Association with a Distinguished Service Award in recognition on her outstanding commitment and contribution to the society. Following this she was also awarded the prestigious Kathleen Robb Award for outstanding contribution to nursing at the Royal College of Nursing Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year Awards. Congratulations Prof Fitzsimons on all of your awards, we are delighted to see such success for one of our PCRN members.
Upcoming PCRN Webinar Save the Date
The next PCRN webinar in the series will be on ‘Introduction to Realist Research Methods’ with Dr Natasha Bradley, Queen's University Belfast.
Date: 01 October 2024, Time: 11:00-12:00. Registration link will be available soon!
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ECRF members Dr Úna Molloy and Kasia Patynowska (below) presented at the recent All Ireland Research Active Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Providers event. Úna shared her experience of research ethics committees and processes in St Francis Hospice and Kasia on her role as a research nurse with Marie Curie NI. They both gave the participants a unique insight into research in hospices and thank you also to other members of the ECRF who participated on the day.
Publications
Recent articles published by Prof Mary McCarron, PCRN member, and her co-authors highlight the health challenges for people with intellectual disabilities. This includes the higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, Age of Alzheimer's disease diagnosis in people with Down syndrome and associated factors: Results from the Horizon 21 European Down syndrome consortium, or being diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer (females) and colorectal cancer An invisible population: Late-stage cancer diagnosis for people with intellectual or developmental disability . A systematic review published on HRB Open Research on Prevalence and incidence of cancer amongst adults with intellectual disability - a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol shows how people with an intellectual disability may be at an increased risk of developing cancer and more likely to present later for medical treatment. Great work is being done by Mary and her Irish and international colleagues to draw attention to the health inequities faced by people with intellectual disabilities.
For more information about PCRN and ECRF members’ publications please see The Palliative Hub Professional see link here.
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Time to Reflect – Irish Hospice Foundation
The Time to Reflect report, recently published shares findings from a survey commissioned by Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) to explore the impact of COVID-19 and public health measures on the experiences and perceptions of the Irish population in relation to dying, death, and bereavement during this time. The full version of the report is available at link.
Marie Curie Research Priorities Survey
This project aims to ask people living with serious life limiting illness, their family, friends and health and social care professionals involved in their care, what they think future research should focus on. We are doing this to make sure that future research about palliative and end of life care addresses issues or problems that are important to people with a serious, life-limiting illness, and / or those close to them.
Marie Curie are working with the James Lind Alliance and many partner organisations, as part of the Palliative and End of Life Care Priority Setting Partnership Refresh including AIIHPC.
A similar project was published in 2015, which identified a list of the top ten priorities for research in this area. Much has changed since 2015; research on some of the identified priorities has been undertaken and we have all been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, in different ways. The time is right to repeat the prioritisation process and hear from patients, families and professionals once more to refresh the priorities for palliative and end of life care research, to help generate the biggest possible impact on experiences towards the end of life.
Once again, Marie Curie is looking to reach:
- People who are living with a serious life-limiting illness who may or may not be receiving palliative care or end of life care (including, but not limited to, cancer, organ failure such as heart, liver or kidney failure, dementia, Parkinson’s, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or Motor Neurone Disease)
- People who are caring for a loved one or someone they know who has a serious life-limiting illness
- Bereaved carers, family members or friends whose loved one(s) died following a serious, life- limiting illness
- Health, social care or other professionals supporting people with serious life-limiting illness
- Volunteers supporting people with serious life-limiting illness (for example as a member of a local community, hospice volunteers or befrienders)
- Members of the public with an interest in palliative
Find more information about the survey, see link (Link) , direct link to survey (Link) . Closing 31 August 2024.
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Newly published National Clinical Guideline: Radiological Staging and Surveillance of patients with cutaneous melanoma.
The National Clinical Guideline is now available on the HSE National Central Repository and can be accessed via this link.
Hospice UK: remote and rural surveys (UK only)
Hospice UK are looking to explore palliative and end of life care in remote, rural and island communities across the UK. The project aims to increase understanding of what is important to people living in rural communities at the end of life, explore the challenges and opportunities in delivering palliative care in rural areas, share learning and case studies, and make policy recommendations to improve support for people in rural communities across the four nations.
To help inform the project, they are running two online surveys:
- One for staff and volunteers providing care and support to people with life limiting conditions in remote, rural and island communities. They are keen to hear from staff across a wide range of roles, including hospice and hospice care at home staff and volunteers, GPs, district nurses, social care staff, pharmacists, ambulance staff, community development workers, community hospital staff and others. Complete the staff and volunteer survey.
- One for people living in remote, rural and island communities to share their lived experience: Complete the lived experience survey.
The surveys are both open until 31 July 2024.
If you would like to hear more about the project, please get in touch Helen Malo, Senior Policy and Public Affairs Manager (Scotland) h.malo@hospiceuk.org or Zoe Geer z.geer@hospiceuk.org.
Global Atlas of Palliative Care
The Global Atlas of Palliative Care is a source of essential information on the status of palliative care worldwide. This second edition of the Global Atlas reveals some of the changes that have occurred since the first edition was published in 2014. For instance, we now have a better idea of how many people need palliative care worldwide. You can download the new Global Atlas of Palliative Care here.
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2024
JULY
10 July, online, Singing through Grief: The Power of Poetry and Song, free event from The Good Grief Project. For more information and to register, visit link.
SEPTEMBER
2-3 September, Palliative Care: Looking Through a Different Lens, Organised by Strathcarron Hospice. Edinburgh. More information is available here Link.
8-14 September, Palliative Care Week 2024 (All Ireland). For further information, visit: Palliative Care Week 2024 - The Palliative Hub.
OCTOBER
7 October 2024 (13h30 - 15h00 CET) 4th EAPC Reference Group Webinar - Education and Schools and will focus on the role of schools and education in public health palliative care. The webinar will be chaired by Dr. Libby Sallnow. Keynote speakers will be Dr. Sally Paul (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) and Bert Quintiens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium). The speakers will cover palliative care education for children and the presence of death and palliative care in the curriculum, and the development and activities of an international learning network on Compassionate Schools. Don’t miss this event. Registrations opening soon on website.
10 October, in person, Northwest Hospice ‘Explorations’ National Palliative Care Conference- Download Save the Date flyer at link.
15 – 18 October, in-person, McGill International Palliative Care Congress, Montreal, Canada, see link for further information (Link). There is also a pre-conference workshop, in English and French, entitled PalliPsych: applying psychiatric and psychotherapeutic insights to enrich palliative care, further details will be available shortly.
16 – 18 October 2024, in-person, "Roots and Horizons" Learning From Yesterday, Living Today, Shaping The Future, 6th Maruzza International Congress on Paediatric Palliative Care Home - Maruzza 6th Congress | ICPPC 2024 (childrenpalliativecarecongress.org).
18 October 2024, in-person, Establishing Research in Your Hospice Conference, St Luke’s Sheffield’s Hospice, see link for further information (Link).
22 - 25 October, in person, 8th Public Health Palliative Care International Conference ‘Building Bridges’, Bern, Switzerland. For further details and to register, visit link.
NOVEMBER
6 November- Save the Date: Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care Annual Conference 2024. More information will be available in due course.
11-13 November, in person, European Grief Conference, Dublin. EGC welcomes a broad range of abstracts on bereavement and grief-related topics with a focus on research, education/policy or practice aligned to levels of the public health model of bereavement. For more information, visit (Link).
26 – 28 November, in person, Hospice UK National Conference, Glasgow, for more information see (Link). Call for abstracts open now until the 14 May (Link).
2025
MAY
7 – 8 May, in person, Built to last: Towards a strong, sustainable future, Together for Short Lives Conference, Manchester. For further information see link.
29 – 31 May, in person, 19th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, Helsinki, see link for further information link.
Please consult the AIIHPC website for our events listing which details conferences and events on the island of Ireland and internationally www.aiihpc.org.
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