Welcome to this new pilot course. We have considered your requests and are delighted to bring you this face to face course in Mountbatten Hampshire.
This is a practical course underpinned by the science of pain management. Our aim is that you leave equipped with the knowledge and confidence to select a second and third line analgesic to support management of opioid unresponsive or poorly opioid responsive pain. Dr Paul Howard (Editor in Chief) and Dr Claire Stark Toller (Editor) of the Palliative Care Formulary bring their knowledge and skill to planning and delivering the teaching.
This course is suitable for prescribers and palliative care staff initiating complex interventions to manage pain.
Places are limited to a maximum of 30. Book early and join us to learn together. We welcome your feedback to make this course as valuable as possible to practitioners and support excellent patient care.
As this is a pilot, we have kept costs as low as possible. Please bring your own lunch.
We do not have Royal College of Physician CPD accreditation but you may claim 5 hours external CPD points plus additional hours for any reading or feedback / teaching you offer to colleagues.
Dr Mary Miller, Educational Director of OxCERPC
Location: Mountbatten Hampshire
CPD Credits: Self accreditation for 5 hours of CPD
+ Venue
Graham Thorpe and Joan Steel rooms,
Mountbatten Hampshire
Botley Road,
West End,
Southampton,
SO30 3JB
+ Speakers
Dr Paul Howard - Consultant Palliative Medicine and Editor in chief of the Palliative Care Formulary
Paul is a consultant in palliative medicine at Mountbatten Hospice and St Mary’s Hospital on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom. He has a strong interest in palliative therapeutics, particularly adapting medication approaches to make them suitable for delivery in people’s own homes. He leads the hospice medicines safety and optimisation team, and sits on the local medicines optimisation committee. He is an editor-in-chief for the Palliative Care Formulary, focusing particularly on palliative neuropharmacology. He also supports the wider development of therapeutics research, e.g. through Data Safety Monitoring Committee work.
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 NACEL
Mary qualified from University College Cork, Ireland in 1988. She trained and worked in palliative medicine in Ireland, Sweden and the UK before starting as a consultant in palliative medicine in Oxford in 1998.
Mary has a strong interest in education; she completed a Diploma in Learning and Teaching at Oxford University in 2005, was Training Programme Director and Regional Specialty Advisor (2002 – 2008) and led the Oxford Advanced Courses in Pain and Symptom Management from 2005. Since the inception of OxCERPC in 2017, Mary and the team are focusing on building an exciting portfolio of courses, building research readiness and reaching out to practitioners across the globe.
Dr Claire Stark Toller – Consultant in Palliative Medicine
Claire is a consultant in palliative medicine at Mountbatten Hampshire Hospice, working largely in inpatient and community settings. She has written palliative care textbooks for over 20 years and is currently works with Pharmaceutical Press as Editor of Palliative Care Formulary and Introducing Palliative Care. When not organising work and family life, she can be found running (slowly) around the New Forest.
+ Course Programmes
Content will include:
9.30 am to 4pm
1. Introduction to the day
2. Recap pain neurobiology – Paul Howard
3. Management of patients with a longer prognosis and those in last short weeks / days life
4. Case discussions
5. Considering methadone, ketamine, clonidine, Na+ channel blockers, topiramate
6. Final session – Changes to your practice and embedding in your catchment area.
7. End of the day and feedback
+ Course Aims
The course aims to refresh and build your knowledge and skills in pain management to enable you to transfer knowledge back to your clinical setting.
Objectives
By attending this course you will:
• Have an opportunity to enjoy learning with your colleagues
• Develop knowledge and skills to support your clinical judgments and enable discussions with your patients and those they love
• Have an opportunity to discuss with experts and your colleagues so that you can apply specialty knowledge to palliative medicine
• 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 for profit so keeping costs as low as possible – any surplus ploughed back into education
