The 2024 Oxford Advanced Pain and Symptom Management Course © in Newcastle – Face to Face
This course is amongst the UK’s leading courses for palliative care nurses, pharmacists and doctors. Almost 500 people attended in 2023. For nearly 45 years it has delivered cutting edge knowledge and skills to healthcare practitioners so they can provide their patients with the best possible care. Dr Mary Miller has led the course since 2008, developing a unique course each year.
Organisations get value for money as the course delivers high standards of professional knowledge, is educationally sound allowing staff time for discussion and supports staff in setting continuing educational goals for the year following the course.
Any profits generated are ploughed back into education - as we are a charity.
In 2024, we will run a face to face course in Oxford and Newcastle. Lectures will be recorded and made available to all delegates attending the face to face courses as part of their supporting educational resources.
The option to watch the recordings is available for people who are unable to attend the face to face courses - see virtual course on our website.
Location: Newcastle Civic Centre
Educational Credits: 12 CPD credits (Ref: 148609)
+ Venue
The Civic Centre, Barras Bridge, Haymarket, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8QH.
+ Speakers
Chairs: Dr Anne-Marie Bourke, Dr Andrew Hughes & Dr Mary Miller
Confirmed speakers:
1. Parenteral nutrition in palliative care: Dr Suzanne Batchelor, consultant gastroenterologist, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals
2. Considering children when their important adult is dying: Dr Jeff Hanna, nurse and post doctoral researcher, Ulster University
3. Parkinson's disease and care at the end of life: Jonathan Hindmarsh, Consultant pharmacist palliative care, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
4. Benzodiazepines and the Z drugs: Dr Paul Howard, Consultant palliative medicine and editor Palliative Care Formulary, Mountbatten Isle of Wight
5. Opioids for breathlessness: the state of the evidence : Professor Miriam Johnson, Associate Director of the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre at the University of Hull.
6. From the journals: Dr Mary Miller, consultant palliative medicine, Oxford.
7. End of life care in hospitals: Quality Improvement: Dr Ollie Minton, Clinical Director for cancer and consultant palliative medicine Brighton
8. Early satiety: Dr Aidan O'Donoghue, Assistant Lecturer in Nutrition & Dietetics, Technological University Dublin
9. “Physicians’ attitudes and experiences of managing breathlessness in palliative, respiratory and end of life care”: Dr Adejoke Oluyase, Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College, London
10. Family members witnessing diminishing drinking of relatives dying in hospital: Professor Anne Pettifer, Assistant Professor in adult nursing, University Birmingham
11. Fluids at the end of life - current evidence: Dr Helen Willicombe, specialty doctor, Oxford
+ Course Programmes
2024 Programme
Thursday 6th June
08:15 Registration (coffee/tea)
08:45 Welcome and introduction
09:00 Benzodiazepines and the Z drugs - Dr Paul Howard
10:00 Fluids at the end of life: Current evidence - Dr Helen Willicombe
11:00 Coffee/tea
11:30 Family members witnessing diminishing drinking of relatives dying in hospital - Dr Annie Pettifer
12:30 Lunch – Pandon Room
13:30 Physicians’ attitudes and experiences of managing breathlessness in palliative, respiratory and end of life care - Dr Adejoke Oluyase
14:30 Nutrition - Dr Suzi Batchelor
15:30 Coffee/Tea
16:00 Considering children when their important adult is dying - Dr Jeff Hanna
17:30 Closing Remarks
17:45 End of day 1
Friday 7th June
08:30 Registration (coffee/tea)
09:00 Opening remarks
09:10 End of Life Care in Hospitals: Quality Improvement - Dr Ollie Minton
10:10 Parkinson's disease and care at the end of life - Jonathan Hindmarsh
11:10 Coffee/tea
11:40 Opioids for breathlessness: the state of the evidence - Professor Miriam Johnson
12:40 Lunch – Pandon Room
13:40 Early Satiety - Dr Aidan O’Donoghue
14:40 From the journals - Dr Mary Miller
15:25 Learning from the Course - Dr Mary Miller
15:45 End of Course
+ Course Aims
The course aims to provide participants with:
- Knowledge to inform and update your practice
- Knowledge that is delivered by expert speakers
- Knowledge that develops between the speakers and the audience during questions and discussions
- Resources that can be used over the following 12 months to develop and extend your learning
- Resources that will support you to bring learning back to your workplace
- Resources that will help you develop your portfolio of evidence for appraisal and revalidation
- A means of ensuring your practice is at the cutting edge
- Time for thinking, questions and reflection
