Education
Palliative Care Bites
Our Palliative Care Bites programme invites speakers to share their expertise virtually. These sessions are open to staff and external professionals.
Past Palliative Care Bites Lectures can be found by clicking on the ‘Past sessions’ button below.
Past Sessions available to watch include:
- Dr Kathryn Mannix, Conversations and Stories at the End of Life .Â
- Heidi McIntyre and Niamh Brophy, Homeless Palliative Care Co-Ordinators, St Ann’s Hospice, Manchester, Homelessness and Palliative Care
- Kerry Lyons, Frailty and End of Life Care
- Dr Sharon Chadwick, Palliative Care for Heart Failure – Top Tips and Practical Advice.
- Dr Clifford Lisk, Deprescribing – What should we stop and what should we continue in the face of advancing illness?Â
Project ECHO Networks
As a Project ECHO hub, Harlington Hospice hosts ECHO networks. These are themed communities of practice who meet regularly to share knowledge and experience with a particular group of practitioners. At Harlington Hospice our community of practice centers around palliative care and end of life. We work in collaboration with MyHealth Hillingdon to deliver our ECHO networks.
Project ECHO started in the USA and has now been brought to the UK by Hospice UK. You can learn more about Project ECHO here.
Our first ECHO project worked with London Ambulance Service (LAS) clinicians, to improve their confidence when attending to dying patients and caring for them at home, an increasing aspect of their role in the community.
Our community of practice included team members from:
- Harlington Hospice, including Dr Ros Taylor MBE and Jo Fernandes
- Central and North West London (CNWL) NHS Trust
- London Ambulance Service
- MyHealth Hillingdon
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Our next ECHO projects are planned with Care Homes in North West London and Community Pharmacies.
For further discussion please email Dr Ros Taylor MBE on rtaylor@harlingtonhospice.org.
Our Conference
We organise an annual in-person conference at Michael Sobell House. We welcome those working within Hospice and Palliative Care across the local area. The conference is free to attend and welcomed more than 320 people each year for the past two years.
Videos from our conference can be found by click on the button below.
