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SUPPORT AROUND DEATH

2024 Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care Annual Conference

SPPC Annual Conference - "The space Between"

03/09/24

The 2024 Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care Annual Conference will take place on 6th November at the John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh. You can read about the speaker line up, download the programme here.

The theme for this year's conference is "The Space Between". Topics will include:

  • uncertainty - a challenge and an opportunity for practitioners and families
  • reducing the gaps between rhetoric and reality, policy and practice, expectations and experience
  • between the last breath and a funeral - options, practicalities and healing
  • theory and practice in future care planning - learnings from a public helpline
  • palliative care in humanitarian settings and emergencies
  • the importance of presence, and the causes of absence
  • improving patient safety and carer confidence around palliative medication
  • tackling exclusion and disadvantage

 To register for the conference, please click here.