Courses and events

Project ECHO® – Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes

This is an international initiative that aims to share specialist knowledge and build communities of practice. Listed below are some examples of regional and national groups that have used this model to deliver Palliative and EOL education programmes.

• GP practices
• Paramedics
• Neighbourhood nursing teams
• Care homes

Please click here for more details on the AHP Physio & OT ECHO Programme

Planning Ahead - Leeds City Health Care Professionals

Training is suitable for clinicians wanting to become a new ReSPECT signatory, and for existing signatories who would like and update. The fully funded course includes:-

• Overview of Advance Care Planning (including the legal framework & What Matters To Me).
• ReSPECT – what it is and the process.
• CPR/DNACPR Decision Making.
• Treatment escalation.
• The Planning Ahead (ReSPECT/ EPaCCS) Template.

See link for training dates.

Palliative Care for the Homeless and Vulnerably Housed

This training is suitable for: - outreach workers, support workers and non-clinical workers.

The purpose of this training is to allow participants to gain an understanding of Palliative and End of life (EOL) care for people that are homeless and vulnerably housed.

Key areas covered by the training include:

• A basic overview of Palliative Care
• Advanced care planning
• How to start conversations surrounding palliative care referral
• Referral process to the Inclusion Service
• Bereavement
• Wellbeing

Advanced Communication Skills Training

This training is suitable for: - Senior Clinicians working in The Primary Care Team.

Do you have discussions with patients who are planning ahead, including conversations about ReSPECT and end of life care? Are you an existing ReSPECT signatory who has not attended advanced communication skills training, or would you like a refresher?

Then this communication skills training session is for you!

Free places are available for health care staff who work in The Primary Care Team to attend an interactive, face to face communication skills training session which focuses on having challenging conversations around key areas in Planning Ahead. The areas that this conversation may include are:

•  Advance Care Planning
• The ReSPECT process including; resuscitation recommendations and treatment escalation

Applicants must be senior clinicians (Band 6 or above) and be in a patient facing role that involves palliative and end of life care / advanced care planning conversations.

See link for training dates.

Symptom Management Advance Practice

This training is suitable for registered Healthcare professionals working at Enhanced and Advanced level of practice (band 6 and above) supporting patients with terminal and long-term conditions receiving palliative and end of life care.

Funded places are available for colleagues in Leeds Community Healthcare and Leeds Primary Care Teams.

The programme will be based on the following training sessions; for further information, please click on each session for a flyer:

• Symptom Management Pain in Palliative Care
• Symptom Management Breathlessness and Fatigue in Palliative Care 
• Symptom Management Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Palliative Care
• Symptom Management Red Flags in Palliative Care

 

Advance Practice Care in the Last Days of Life

This training is suitable for Registered Healthcare professionals working at Enhanced and Advanced level of practice (band 6 and above) supporting patients with terminal and long-term conditions receiving palliative and end of life care.

Funded places are available for colleagues in Leeds Community Healthcare and Leeds Primary Care Teams.

Key areas covered by the training include: 

• Recognising dying
• Assessing and managing symptoms
• Anticipatory prescribing
• Terminal agitation
• End of life decision making.

See link for further information.

 

Introduction to Palliative and End of Life Care Programme

This programme is ideal for Health and Social Care Professionals who are new to palliative and end of life care or who want to refresh their knowledge. This includes: Health Care Assistants and Support Workers; Registered Nurses and Nursing Associates; Allied Health Care Professionals; and Social Workers.

Potential funding opportunities are available; please click here for the flyer and here for the application form.