Events in Scotland

Lymphoedema: Casley-Smith Update Course

June 6, 2012 - June 8, 2012 - University of Glasgow

Cost £295

For more information contact Emma Fisher or Margaret Sneddon:
Email: lymph@glasgow.ac.uk
Tel: 0141 330 2072/2071
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/nursing/

Multidisciplinary Care Pathways in Motor Neurone Disease

May 22, 2012 - COSLA Conference Centre, Verity House, 19 Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh, EH12 5BH

MND is an incurable, progressive, condition. This one day seminar will explore multidisciplinary care pathways and interventions appropriate to different stages of the disease from diagnosis to end stage. The intended audience is health and social care professionals, including care home staff, who may be providing services to people affected by MND.

Cost: £50.00

For more information contact Bob Bestow:
Email: info@mndscotland.org.uk
Tel: 0141 945 1077
http://www.mndscotland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/MND-Scotland-2012-Registration-Form.pdf

Community engagement: back to our future

November 29, 2012 - November 30, 2012 - The Palace Hotel, Manchester

Help the Hospices national conference, held in partnership with the Forum of Chairmen of Independent Hospices, focuses on community engagement – how it captures the best of our history as a movement and has the potential to build our future security.

Join us at the Palace Hotel in Manchester to reflect on and debate:
 why and how we should engage with our communities
 who benefits
 what challenges and benefits genuine engagement
offers - at a national and local level
 the risks for hospices who fail to engage with their
communities.

Whatever your role – chief executive, chair, trustee, income generation, communications, delivering care or managing volunteers – the conference offers a stimulating and topical programme with excellent opportunities to network and learn.

For more information contact Jean Hindmarch:
Email: conference@helpthehospices.org.uk
Tel: 0207 520 82 00
: http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk/our-services/education-training/conference-2012/

Palliative Care: Meeting Local and Global Challenges

June 13, 2012 - George Square Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh

George Square Lecture Theatre
George Square, Edinburgh

June 13th 2012 - 6pm-8pm

Palliative Care has its origins in the modern hospice movement and pioneers such as Dame Cicely Saunders (St Christopher’s Hospice) and Dr Derek Doyle (St Columba’s Hospice). Today the challenge is to deliver care to patients at all stages of a life-limiting illness. Our research programme in pain management in Edinburgh has been the result of a very successful UK-wide collaboration and the results can be transferred and built on in many countries, including, in particular, those under-resourced.

How a country brings people into the world and cares for them as they leave this world captures the heart of healthcare. Establishing care for those living with life limiting illnesses and those whose death is close is an essential humanitarian act, yet in so many countries end of life care is left wanting. People die in the most horrendous pain, people die lonely and isolated, people die longing for a gentle touch and a caring word to calm their fears. Edinburgh University has a major global programme funded by DFID through THET focussed on improving end of life care for people in Africa through training local staff teams, setting in place clinical pathways for care and learning from African communities how to care in the community here in Scotland.

This is a free but ticketed event, to book please visit - www.palliativecaretalk.eventbrite.com

Refreshments will be available from 5:30pm.

Cost: Free

For more information contact Lisa Wood:
Email: Lisa.Wood@ed.ac.uk
http://www.palliativecaretalk.eventbrite.com