Virtual

Full speaker list TBC:

Dr Mary Miller - Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Sobell House, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, University of Oxford, Director OxCERPC (Oxford Centre for education and research in palliative care) and Clinical Lead for National Audit of Care at the End of Life.
Dr Miller qualified from University College Cork, Ireland in 1988. She trained and worked in palliative medicine in Ireland, Sweden and the UK and has been a consultant in palliative medicine in Oxford since 1998. Dr Miller has a strong interest in education; completing a Diploma in Learning and Teaching at Oxford University 2005, was Training Programme Director and Regional Specialty Advisor (2002 – 2008) and has led the Oxford Advanced Courses in Pain and Symptom Management since 2005. Dr Miller and the team are focusing on building an exciting portfolio of courses, building research readiness and reaching out to practitioners across the globe.

Dr Idris Baker
Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Ty Olwen Hospice, Morriston Hospital, Swansea.
Dr Baker is a consultant in palliative medicine in Swansea. He grew up in Knighton and Bangor and trained mainly in Cambridge, London and Leicester. He has interests in the theoretical and applied ethics of end of life care which he has studied at Keele University. Before taking up his post in Swansea he was visiting scholar at the Hastings Center in New York, looking at questions of autonomy and proxy decision making. He currently has responsibilities in medical management, postgraduate training and education, and clinical ethics, but although he has read a couple of books he has learnt most of what he knows at patients’ bedsides. He teaches and speaks widely on palliative care and ethics on undergraduate and postgraduate courses and with other groups.

Chairs: Dr Idris Baker & Dr Mary Miller
TBC: Philosopher discussing harm
Dr Baker: Where’s the harm? – the problem of safety and end of life care.”
Description: There has been a growing and welcome focus on safety and reducing harm in health care. Understandably, harms which cause death are often regarded as the most serious, with anything non-lethal seen inherently as less so. But for people nearing the end of life, who are very easily harmed by health care, this can mean that no harm done to them is taken quite as seriously because they will die soon in any case. It can result in major and systematic failings in our duty of nonmaleficence. In this session we will look at this problem, at emerging thinking on how we can reframe harm, and at the ethical case for paying better attention to harm in palliative and end of life care.
Dr Derek Willis: Palliative care and  Harm- Aristotle's view
Description: Discussing harm to staff when palliative care is done badly.
Dr Mary Miller: Case presentation and discussion on harm

Aim:
The conference aims to build your knowledge and skills in the field of ethics and enable you to transfer your skills to clinical care
Objectives
By attending the conference you will:
• Have an opportunity to enjoy learning with your colleagues
• Develop your ability to apply knowledge gained to the management of clinical issues with ethical complexities in your practice
• Develop knowledge and skills to impact and support the decisions considered by your patients and those they love
• Be supported to bring your learning back to your organisation
• Have an opportunity to network with your peers

Key benefits include:
• A high standard of professional knowledge
• Excellent teaching
• Time for questions, discussion and building your networks
• Support to set educational goals for the coming year
• Superb value for money
• Experienced and enthusiastic administrative staff
• Focus on participants, not profit – any surplus ploughed back into education