WMS hosts collaborative event on palliative care
Collaborating with our NHS partners, building relationships and providing opportunities for discussion and networking
Event outcomes:
* Bringing together WMS staff, students and healthcare professionals from across the Warwickshire and Coventry area.
* Exploring palliative care from different perspectives and hearing from a range of different service providers.
* Great opportunity to share, learn and network across the Cov & Warwickshire palliative care system.
*Many different exhibitors/stands for delegates to visit/brows during breaks .
Getting it right when it matters most...
...how we can best support the palliative care needs of our patients
Collaborative event hosted by WMS - 21/03/24
The full event programme can be viewed here and a list of exhibitors can be found here. There were a 150 attendees at the event and feedback from delegates was overwhelmingly positive.
"Very informative and useful sessions. Mixture of health care professionals from different areas of working was good .Thank you!"
"So refreshing to see the perspectives of palliative care/EOL from our colleagues, what the challenges are they face and how we could work more collaboratively to improve patient centred palliative care."
"All speakers delivered learning objectives, ….. day was really well organised and an excellent way of addressing a sensitive topic. It was thought provoking and has given me lots of good ideas to take back to my service."
"Thanks, and congratulations to the organisers for such a well organised event, the venue and facilities were really great."
"I found the day very interesting and helpful for thinking about our research".
Key messages from the day:
The importance of getting to know our patients as individuals/real people and what matters most to them, more days like this please, possible future topics to include dementia care & support /Parkinsons & neurological conditions, support from the Warwick Medical School made the event achievable.
Find out more/useful links:
Event Welcome and Introduction
CASTLE (Care and Support Towards Life's End) website
MBCHB Community Education Lead - Dr Jackie Shanley (more information on our theme leads webpage)
Presentation slides - these can be provided on request, if speakers have given permission to share them. Please email .
Contact us:
The event was organised, co-ordinated and managed by the Event Organising Committee comprised of representatives from the Castle Education Advisory Group and the Warwick Medical School. Please direct any enquires to in the first instance.