Strathcarron Hospice, Fankerton, Scotland

Dr Mary Miller - Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Sobell House, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, University of Oxford, Director of OxCERPC, and Clinical Lead for NACEL.

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. She is an elected member of the Education Committee of the Association of Palliative Medicine and joint lead of the postgraduate education special interest forum. Since the inception of OxCERPC in 2017, 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 Sally Boa - Head of Palliative Care Education, Research and Practice Development at Strathcarron Hospice

Dr Boa originally trained as a Speech and Language Therapist and over her career has worked in the NHS and third sector, primarily with adults with acquired communication disability. Throughout this time, she has been passionate about the importance of multidisciplinary, person centred care and ensuring that the voice of the person and families are heard. In 2014 Dr Boa completed a PhD (funded by Strathcarron Hospice) which focused on developing, implementing and evaluating a person-centred goal setting intervention. This is now used in the hospice to help professionals work with patients to identify what is important to them and support them to work towards and achieve important goals. This piece of work won the Scottish Health Innovation Award in 2013. Dr Boa now works at Strathcarron as Head of Palliative Care Education, Research and Practice Development. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Stirling and a member of the EAPC taskforce workstream on Rehabilitation in Palliative Care.

LINK FOR PROGRAMME CAN BE FOUND ABOVE

09:00 - Coffee & Registration
09:15 - Welcome & Introduction
09:25- Nausea and vomiting (Dr Mary Miller)
10:10 - Nonpharmalogical management of breathlessness (Dr Mary Miller)
10:40- Coffee break
11:10- Oral Health (Dr Mary Miller)
11:45-Vitamin deficiencies in our patients (Dr Mary Miller)
12:15- Lunch
13:15 - The Strathcarron Lecture 2025 Thinking Ahead: Making Future Crae Planning Accessible (Dr Sally Boa)
14:15 - Break
14:30 - Problematic opioid use (Dr Mary Miller)
15:00 - Opioid induced neurotoxicity
15:30 - Summary and return to practice
15:45 - End of day

Knowledge to inform your practice
Resources from which to continue learning and adapt that learning in practice
A means of ensuring your practice compares with ‘good practice’, benchmarking against your peers
Stimulation, time for thinking and reflection