If you are a healthcare professional with an interest in palliative care, you may benefit from training at the St Gemma’s Academic Unit of Palliative Care. We offer a range of palliative care and end of life care training courses aimed at doctors, nurses, social workers and other professionals in Leeds and further afield.
The AUPC is currently offering the following palliative care courses and workshops:
The course is an 8 week home-based learning, multi-professional programme, developed at Princess Alice Hospice in 2001 (www.pah.org.uk) Now being offered at St Gemma’s Hospice. Contact: Jane Chatterjee, Lecturer in Palliative Care, tel: 0113 218 5282.
Download course-specific application form
Bursaries may be available from Hospice UK (via the Wolfson) for people to undertake the ECEPC. Funding is being made available to support candidates from Hospices and care homes. To apply for funding, please visit: https://www.hospiceuk.org/what-we-offer/grants/open-grant-programmes/details/wolfson-bursaries—hospice-staff
A 2-day multi-disciplinary skills workshop utilising an interactive approach, with video recorded simulation scenarios.
Date: from May to November 2019 delivered at St Gemma’s Hospice.
Download an application form or contact marion.baldwin@st-gemma.co.uk
This course covers essential areas of the palliative care curriculum and is relevant to both trainees taking the Palliative Medicine Specialty Certificate Exam in 2018 and clinicians who want to refresh and update their clinical practice, in line with the most current guidelines and evidence base.
Dates for 2019 to be confirmed.
Facilitated by expert clinicians in palliative medicine and care, including consultant in palliative medicine, consultant nurse and members of the multi-disciplinary Hospice team. Relevant for those who take a lead in palliative/end of life care.
Dates: Wednesday 27th March and Tuesday 23rd May 2019
Major ethical issues in palliative and end of life care will be explored with reference to key contemporary cases. This day will be facilitated by Dr Janet Holt, Senior Lecturer in the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, and Chair of the Royal College of Nursing Ethics Committee.
Date: Friday 21 June 2019
People with dementia need increasingly specialised support as they approach the end of life. So do their families and the professionals working with them. Facilitated by Jane Chatterjee, co-author of “End of Life Care for People with Dementia” – A Person-Centred Approach.
Date: Friday 11 October 2019
For course information, costs and bookings, please contact:
Marion Baldwin
AUPC Support Secretary
St Gemma’s Hospice
Tel: 0113 218 5195
Email Marion
