Hospice Care Awareness Days

An introduction to hospice care, palliative care, and end of life care for health care professionals and students.

Wednesday 30^th September 2026, 9.15am to 4.15pm

The day will cover the following topics and will include a tour of the hospice (where numbers, patient confidentiality and IPC precautions allow)

• Death, dying, and the philosophy of end of life care, including palliative care guidance
• National principles, standards, and priorities for end of life care
• An overview of St Wilfrid’s Hospice, including services, referrals, links with partner services, and funding
• Recognising end of life and the dying phase
• An introduction into spiritual support, sex and intimacy, and compassionate communities
• Rehabilitative Palliative Care
• Symptom management, pain assessment, just-in-case medications, ReSPECT, advance care planning, and difficult conversations
• Death, dying, and the philosophy of end of life care, including palliative care guidance National principles, standards, and priorities for end of life care 

Please note: These sessions will only give an overview of the topics mentioned above, if full training is required for individual topics such as Symptom Management, please see other training courses available on the website https://www.stwhospice.org/professionals/learning-and-development/

This day includes discussion of highly emotive topics, including symptom management, death, and dying. Before booking, please consider whether the content may be upsetting and what support is available to you within your workplace or learning institution, should you need it.

After attendance, you will receive a certificate of attendance, including CPD hours.

This course has limited spaced available, please insure you book relevant spaces, an email will follow to confirm once booked. Due to the nature of the session, we are unable to allow children to be present.  

If you have any questions prior to booking, please contact  [email protected]